Me Quotes

“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.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
― Katherine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Fuck the roots.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Listen to the Song of Life”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“My father had been disgusted and heartsick over the fact that I wanted to act. Thought it a silly profession closely allied to street-walking.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love...”
― Katherine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“You suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin'--you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin'--you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Love Katharine Hepburn. Her selfless love to Spencer, with little or no regard for her own needs, wants or care, bothers me. The book while interesting, was not what i expected, yet, the last chapter was the most disturbing, love knows no bounds, she had unconditional love for Spencer, it is a shame it was not reciprocated. she deserved so much more. but she did it out of love. how can you argue with that? i hope her free spirit is still surrounding all of us.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“He was Irish to the fingertips. He could laugh and he could create laughter. He had a funny way of looking at things—at some things, I should say.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“It seems to me I discovered what “I love you” really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you. What does this mean? I love you. What does this mean? Think. We use this expression very carelessly. LOVE has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get—only with what you are expecting to give—which is everything.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“If you are a member of a big family, you always have someone at hand for golf, tennis, walks, movies. You never have to “find company,” so to speak.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Dad always said if you want to get something, don’t write. Don’t telephone. Be there yourself. In person. Harder to turn down a living presence.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“It seems to me I discovered what "I love you" really means. It means I put you and your interests and your comfort ahead of my own interests and my own comfort because I love you,”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“So just keep a-goin'-you can win. It's when you stop that you're done.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Personal charm is a great help. You can sit there and be an awful ass, but if you have personal charm, you can really put it over on the general public”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Also, I was not in the business of capturing anyone into a marriage. I just did not want to marry anyone. I liked the idea of being my own self. Even when I was living with Spencer Tracy and he and I were together for twenty-seven years, we never really thought about or discussed marriage. He was married and I wasn't interested.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“two people who are used to having their own way should stay separate”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“He summed me up very accurately for what I was: a lady, so called-a sort of a snob-and totally insecure.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“I'd always wanted to be a boy. Jimmy was my name, if you want to know.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“To learn responsibility - each of us has to learn responsibility.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Connecticut. Aren’t we lucky? We have wonderful wildflowers—parks—hills—lovely old houses. We have a pace that we like—sometimes slow—sometimes fast. Rivers—reservoirs—Long Island Sound. A wonderful climate—trees—gardens—snow—rain. And it’s a good size—not huge—not small.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“I loved Spencer Tracy. He and his interests and his demands came first.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“How I miss you two. I was so used to turning to you. It was heaven. Always to have you two to turn to in despair, in joy. There you were: strong—funny. Two rocks. What you did for me—wow! What luck to be born out of love and to live in an atmosphere of warmth and interest.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life

“Because you suddenly realize what a tremendous opportunity it is just to be alive. The potential. If you can keep a-goin’—you actually can do it. So just keep a-goin’—you can win. It’s when you stop that you’re done.”
― Katharine Hepburn, Me: Stories of My Life