Katharine Hepburn

"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."

"If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun."

"The person who says it is impossible should not interrupt the person doing it."

"I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe it's nothing mysterious to not believe in God."

"Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear inherent in human condition."

"As one goes through life one realizes that if what we believe is right it does not matter how many people think we are wrong."

"You can't change anything if you hold yourself back."

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea."

"I have always had a dread of becoming a passenger in life."

"Fellow actors are the only people who understand the profession."

"I'm a very strong believer that you don't have to play the feminine-looking thing."

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."

"We are taught to put a very high value on our lives, while we are taught at the same time that taking lives is not altogether wicked."

"Only the really top stars have a commitment to doing the best that they can do at all times."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"I'm a feminist and what I feed on is to see women also reaching out into the world."

"Do what you fear and fear disappears."

"If you always do what interests you, then at least one person is happy."

"You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it."

"The stage has been my greatest teacher."

"When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible."

"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."

"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

"We need to examine our assumptions about the role of the individual versus the collective."

"Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get."

"I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than play a comedy with lots."

"I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on."

"My father had always said that there are four things a child needs: plenty of fresh air, exercise, equality with other children, and the right diet."

"The most important thing women can do is anything they want to."