Katharine Hepburn Movie Quotes

Katharine Hepburn won 4 Best Actress Oscars and didn’t show up at the ceremony for any of them. She won her first for her work in Morning Glory (1933) and her last for On Golden Pond (1981). In between, she was nominated for Best Actress 8 other times. She was the most nominated actress until Meryl Streep, but Streep will have to win 2 more Oscars to catch up to Hepburn. Here is a mini bio on Hepburn:

And here are some quotes from her films:

As Ethel Thayer in on Golden Pond (1981) (won Oscar)
“That son of a bitch happens to be my husband.”
“Don’t you think that everyone looks back on their childhood with a certain amount of bitterness and regret about something?”
“Listen to me, mister. You’re my knight in shining armor. Don’t you forget it.”
“Don’t be such an old poop!”

As Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968) (won Oscar)
“Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians!”
“In a world where carpenters get resurrected, everything is possible.”
“I wonder… do you ever wonder… if I slept with your father.”

As Christina Drayton in Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) (won Oscar)
“Express some more beautiful thoughts to the lad there.”
“She has a quite ruthless streak, really John. You ought to be warned about it. She gets it from her father.”
“The most obvious mistake you’re making is in underestimating your own daughter.”
“Nobody understands nothing no more.”

As Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory (1933) (won Oscar)
“They’ve been trying to frighten me into being sensible, but they can’t do it. Not now. Not yet. They’ve got to let me be as foolish as I want to be.”
“A shorter name would be more convenient on a sign. Still, ‘Eva Lovelace in Camille,’ for instance, or ‘Eva Lovelace in Romeo and Juliet’ sounds very distinguished, doesn’t it?”

As Lizzie Curry in The Rainmaker (1956) (nominated for Oscar)
“Starbuck, you said the wrong thing!”
“I gotta be Lizzie. Melisande is a name for one night but Lizzie can do me my whole life long.”

As Mary, Queen of Scots in Mary of Scotland (1934)
“I might have known you’d come to gloat like this — stealthily, under cover of night.”
“I have loved as a woman loves, lost as a woman loses. My son shall sit on the throne! My son shall rule England! Still, still, I win!
“War! Is that all you men know?”