Katharine Hepburn Quotes

You can't worry about pleasing other people; you have to please yourself.

I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

You've gotta do what you like to do. If you do things you don't like to do, what sense does it make?

You can't please everyone so you gotta please yourself.

The sad thing is most people have to check with someone before they do the things that make them happy. We're all passing through; the least we can do is be happy, and the only way to do that is by being selfish.

I don't know what it is that I'm doing, but I'm really enjoying myself. And I'm free to do it as much as I want.

My career is over. I'm just playing now and having a great time. I like to keep busy, and I'm doing what's fun for me.

I couldn't do anything I didn't enjoy.

I will act because I enjoy it.

I always felt more comfortable doing what I wanted to do. Because at the end of the day, I'll be happy.

I wouldn't do anything I don't enjoy.

You cannot please everyone, and I think that what's important, ultimately, is to make sure you please yourself. If you start trying to please other people, you'll just go around in circles.

Whatever I do, I enjoy myself.

I'm happy when I can spend every day doing the things that I like to do. That's my luxury.

Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!

Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.

I get to do what I like to do every single day of the year.

Doing something purely for one's own enjoyment is fine, but, I must admit, finding that others enjoy it as well has a certain power over the corners of my mouth.

The pleasure is our choice.

I'm alive, happier than I've ever been, and I'm doing exactly what I want.

The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.

Every man hath a general desire of his own happiness; and likewise a variety of particular affections, passions, and appetites to particular external objects.

When I went to school, I was in the same mode. I did the things I enjoyed, what I loved.

You know that we have a great variety of ways to gratify our own desires.

And I always laugh at that, because I think I've always been doing what I want to do since Day 1.