Katharine Hepburn Quotes About Acting

Quotes about: Acting

• Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Nice, Acting, Selling

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• The terrible thing about acting in the theater is that you have to do it at night.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Night, Acting, Theater

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

  Katharine Hepburn

  Women, Memorable, Acting

• We were brought up in the school that teaches: You do what the script tells you. Deliver the goods without comment. Live it-do it-or shut up. After all, the writer is what's important. If the script is good and you don't get in its way, it will come off okay. I never discussed a script with Spence [Spencer Tracy]; we just did it. The same with Hank [Henry Fonda] in On Golden Pond. Naturally and unconsciously we joined into what I call a musical necessity-the chemistry that brings out the essence of the characters and the work.

  Katharine Hepburn

  School, Character, Essence

• What acting means is that you've got to get out of your own skin.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Mean, Theatre, Skins

• Acting is the perfect idiot's profession.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Perfect, Acting, Actors

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