Hepburn: "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."

Hepburn: "My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate."

Hepburn: "It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack."

Hepburn: "Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about."

Hepburn: "Death will be a great relief. No more interviews."

Hepburn: "It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels."

Hepburn: "To be loved is very demoralizing."

Hepburn: "Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."

Hepburn: "I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid."

Hepburn: "As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work."

Hepburn: "We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change."

Hepburn: "Acting is the perfect idiot's profession."

Hepburn: "Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four."

Hepburn: "Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents."

Hepburn: "It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean."

Hepburn: "The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend."

Hepburn: "If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased."

Hepburn: "Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around."

Hepburn: "Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother."

Hepburn: "Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself."

Hepburn: "I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky."

Hepburn: "Without discipline, there's no life at all."

Hepburn: "Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age."

Hepburn: "I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex."

Hepburn: "Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer."