Quotes By Person – Page 11

Year: 1935

Director:
George Cukor

Sylvia Scarlett

Sylvia Scarlett: Well, we're all fools sometimes. Only you choose such awkward times.

-- Katharine Hepburn (as Sylvia Scarlett a.k.a. Sylvester) in Sylvia Scarlett (1935)

Year: 1937

Director:
Gregory La Cava

Stage Door

Terry Randall: [delivering her opening speech in the play within the movie] The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower, suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.

-- Katharine Hepburn (as Terry Randall) in Stage Door (1937)

Year: 1937

Director:
Gregory La Cava

Stage Door

Terry Randall: [giving her curtain speech at the end of a trimphant opening night performance of the play within the movie] The person you should be applauding died a few hours ago. I hope that wherever she is, she knows and understands and forgives.

-- Katharine Hepburn (as Terry Randall) in Stage Door (1937)

Year: 1937

Director:
Gregory La Cava

Stage Door

Terry Randall: [With a superior air, leaving the crowded living room of girls after many snappy wisecracks and lively banter among the group] It'd be a terrific innovation if you could get your minds stretched a little further than the next wisecrack.

-- Katharine Hepburn (as Terry Randall) in Stage Door (1937)

Year: 1942

Director:
George Stevens

Woman of the Year

Tess Harding: I'm going to be you wife. You don't think that I can do the little ordinary things that any idiot can do, do you?
Sam Craig: No.
Tess Harding: Why not?
Sam Craig: Because you're incapable of doing them, that's why. You can't expect Seabiscuit to stop in the middle of the stretch, drink a glass of water, and count to seven at the same time, you know. That takes training.
Tess Harding: Well, I'm not Seabiscuit.

-- Katharine Hepburn (as Tess Harding) in Woman of the Year (1942)