There are women and women—and then there’s Kate. There are actresses and actresses—and then there’s Hepburn.

— Frank Capra

katharinehepburn:

I think the reason people have an affection for me now is in a kind of a way I must have lived a life that a lot of women think would be a nice life to have lived. They think its dignified, but they think its free. I’ve done what i wanted to do. They don’t bother to think they have five children and I haven’t. I have brains enough to know you cannot have it all.

Katharine Hepburn (May 12, 1907-June 29, 2003)

lucynic83:

250 Favorite Classic Films in no particular order
⇨ Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Now it isn’t that I don’t like you, Susan, because, after all, in moments of quiet, I’m strangely drawn toward you, but - well, there haven’t been any quiet moments.

↳”No no, nothing happened to me David, I just fell-I mean, THE LEOPARD, DAVID, THE LEOPARD!”

“CAN YOU HEAR ME SUSAN? SUSAN! SUSAN BE BRAVE!””

bonaventures:

Katharine Hepburn in Art Form

“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.”

“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.”