The quickest path to missing your commitments is to make commitments that you know you can’t meet.

If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, [and] to all rooms inside.

Most of my friends aren&#39;t actors - and not one of them is overly impressed with what I do.

It&#39;s life isn&#39;t it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.

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

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

Written By Katharine Hepburn