Katharine Hepburn mocked Jane Fonda over Oscar row: 'Won't catch me now!'

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JUST IN: Jane Fonda says 'competitive' Katharine Hepburn 'didn't like' herShe continued: "She did not like me.

She once told [writer] Dominick Dunne that I didn't have a soul. "Though the pair failed to engage in a more meaningful way, Hepburn herself noted that she would be seen as different from others when fellow actors, and the public, met her for the first time.

In a New York Times piece from 2003, when Hepburn passed away, the star said: "I strike people as peculiar in some way, although I don't quite understand why. "Of course, I have an angular face, an angular body, and, I suppose, an angular personality, which jabs into people. "DON'T MISS:'You're a real b*****d!' Hepburn refused to work with John Wayne [INSIGHT]Jane Fonda opens up on FEUD with Katharine Hepburn - 'Very prickly' [ANALYSIS]Humphrey Bogart's boat is queen of the river once again [REVIEW]A BBC obituary quoted Hepburn as adding: "I'm a personality as well as an actress. "Show me an actress who isn't a personality, and you'll show me a woman who isn't a star. "Her acting style helped define a new generation of actresses, and was discussed by historian Richard Schickel for the Los Angeles Times in 2011.

He said: "Her best films were when she was presented as a woman on her high horse with slightly pretentious, often comically stated ideas about the world. "It was for men to bring her down and get her to reveal herself as quite a good gal, sporty and democratic. "We liked the idea that aristocratic people would be humanised by democratic values-in her case, by slightly rough-necked and good-natured males. "Hepburn's death 19 years ago, saw tributes from across the globe posted as the world mourned one of its finest actors.