June 29, 2003 Fenwick, Old Saybrook, Connecticut, United States
Aged
96 years
Hepburn was birthed as 2nd youngster of 6 in a wealthy and also free-thinking household. His father was a popular cosmetic surgeon of urology as a specialty as well as the mommy was a devoted suffragette that fought for contraception and women's emancipation. Kid Hepburn was healed currently from very early childhood years with ice-cold baths, long walks and mountain climbs up. The family endured a tragedy when the sixteen years of age kid Tom hanged himself throughout a browse through to friends in New York.
Hepburn was drawn to the scene at a young age and started playing the amateur age of twelve. She researched at the well-known Women's College Bryn Mawr and graduated 1928th During university, she had acted in several institution plays and also right after college graduation, she procured småroller on Broadway. The very same year she married the wealthy Ludlow Ogden Smith, that belonged to among Pennsylvania's finest families. The marital relationship finished in divorce in 1934, then Hepburn chose to seriously purchase the film. She had gotten her first film function in 1932 in the Costs of queens Concrete versus John Barrymore.
She involved make an extra fifty movies over the years. 1999 American Movie Institute placed Hepburn as the leading starlet in American movie background. She won 4 Oscar statuettes for Best Actress, got twelve nomineringer for Finest Starlet as well as got an Emmy Honor for starring in "Love Amongst the Ruins". She was also chosen for four other Emmys as well as two Tony Awards during his 70-year career.
She was taken into consideration for several years as an outsider in Hollywood - she was walking around town dressed in lengthy trousers, declined to provide meetings or indication autographs, did not relate to other Hollywood celebs and also was very secretive regarding his exclusive life.
Hepburn lived from 1942 to 1967 with Spencer Tracy. They fulfilled on the set of Female of the Year in 1942 as well as played in nine movies together. Tracy was sadly married, however his Catholic confidence and also his very own principles prohibited divorce. Their 25-year romance came to be a tale in Hollywood, a tender, considerate and extremely exclusive affair, as every person recognized yet no person gossiped about.
The last years of his life was Hepburn with illness, but she did not suffer from Parkinson's condition, regardless of their substantial shake. 1993 in a docudrama concerning her as she did voice over on himself told her that her tremors came from her grandpa that dealt with the same problem.
Our collection contains 33 quotes who is written / told by Katharine, under the main topics: Death - Marriage - Women.
"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"
"It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean"
"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun"
"Enemies are so stimulating"
"Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age"
"Death will be a great relief. No more interviews"
"Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it - I would have made a terrible mother"
"As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work"
"Acting is the perfect idiot's profession"
"Acting is the most minor of gifts. After all, Shirley Temple could do it when she was four"
"Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself"
"Without discipline, there's no life at all"
"Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer"
"When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous"
"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased"
"I think most of the people involved in any art always secretly wonder whether they are really there because they're good or there because they're lucky"
"I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex"
"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun"
"I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid"
"It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession"
"It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack"
"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married"
"If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married"
"Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then"
"Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do"
"Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents"
"Never complain. Never explain"
"My greatest strength is common sense. I'm really a standard brand - like Campbell's tomato soup or Baker's chocolate"
"Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about"
"Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything"
"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 hard. After all, it kills you"
"It's life isn't it? You plow ahead and make a hit. And you plow on and someone passes you. Then someone passes them. Time levels"
