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Film Quotes by Katharine Hepburn

152 quotes
Holiday
Year: 1938

Director:
George Cukor
Linda Seton: You see Case, the trouble with me is that I never could decide whether I wanted to be Joan of Arc, Florence Nightingale, or John L. Lewis.
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Linda Seton) in Holiday (1938)
Holiday
Year: 1938

Director:
George Cukor
Linda Seton: You've got no faith in Johnny, have you, Julia? His little dream may fall flat, you think. Well, so it may, what if it should? There'll be another. Oh, I've got all the faith in the world in Johnny. Whatever he does is all right with me. If he wants to dream for a while, he can dream for a while, and if he wants to come back and sell peanuts, oh, how I'll believe in those peanuts!
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Linda Seton) in Holiday (1938)
State of the Union
Year: 1948

Director:
Frank Capra
Mary Matthews: It's a small request, but I'd give anything for a good smack on the south end.
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Mary Matthews) in State of the Union (1948)
State of the Union
Year: 1948

Director:
Frank Capra
Mary Matthews: Oh, that's silly. No woman could ever run for President. She'd have to admit she's over 35.
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Mary Matthews) in State of the Union (1948)
State of the Union
Year: 1948

Director:
Frank Capra
Mary Matthews: You politicians have stayed professionals only because the voters have remained amateurs.
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Mary Matthews) in State of the Union (1948)
Suddenly, Last Summer
Year: 1959

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mrs. Venable: Most people's lives, what are they but trails of debris - each day more debris, more debris... long, long trails of debris, with nothing to clean it all up but death.
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Mrs. Violet Venable) in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer
Year: 1959

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mrs. Venable: My son, Sebastian and I constructed our days. Each day we would carve each day like a piece of sculpture, leaving behind us a trail of days like a gallery of sculpture until suddenly, last summer.
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Mrs. Violet Venable) in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer
Year: 1959

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mrs. Venable: Oh, Sebastian, what a lovely summer it's been. Just the two of us. Sebastian and Violet. Violet and Sebastian. Just the way it's always going to be. Oh, we are lucky, my darling, to have one another and need no one else ever.
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Mrs. Violet Venable) in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer
Year: 1959

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mrs. Venable: Sebastian said, 'Truth is the bottom of a bottomless well.'
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Mrs. Violet Venable) in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer
Year: 1959

Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Mrs. Venable: Sebastian saw the face of God.
-- Katharine Hepburn (as Mrs. Violet Venable) in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)