Audrey Hepburn Quotes

Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.

People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Hypocrisy, is when individuals become abnoxiously contradicting, unrealistically criticizing the government of South Sudan, but yet are part of the puzzle underneath the Salva Kiir's regime.

Thursday? Oh no, it can't be! It's too gruesome.

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to - Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

I'm an introvert ... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

Happy girls are the prettiest

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

On the one hand maybe I've remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky enough to find someone who appreciates you.

As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself ... all of which I've earned a living doing.

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.

There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn't perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that's not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

Perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don't want to get run over. But, you still cross the street.

I believe in pink.

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Civilization is human rights, it is the path of setting man free from men, phobia, to survive it, we must cultivate the science of human relationships.

I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

I can testify to what UNICEF means to children because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

I have learnt how to live ... how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really ... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.

Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.

Never regret anything that makes you smile.

Nothing is impossible, even the word it self says i'm possible.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic - but to treasure the day. I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all.

Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it's closets

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Auntie Mame, who was the british lady?
'Oh, she's from Pittsburgh'
'But she had the acc-'
'Well, when your from Pittsburgh you gotta do something

Moon River
Moon river, wider than a mile
I'm crossing you in style some day
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', i'm goin' your way
Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after the same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me
(moon river, wider than a mile)
(i'm crossin' you in style some day)
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker
Wherever you're goin', i'm goin' your way
Two drifters, off to see the world
There's such a lot of world to see
We're after that same rainbow's end, waitin' 'round the bend
My huckleberry friend, moon river, and me

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Since the world has existed, there has been injustice. But it is one world, the more so as it becomes smaller, more accessible. There is just no question that there is more obligation that those who have should give to those who have nothing.

Is there anything more important than a child?

Love is action. It isn't just talk, and it never was.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.
(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)

Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio.
Remember, if you need a hand you'll find it at the end of your arm.

I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment

And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.

When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman

My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I'd never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love ... So it isn't age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.

La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.

I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Gardening is the greatest tonic and therapy a human being can have. Even if you have only a tiny piece of earth, you can create something beautiful, which we all have a great need for. If we begin by respecting plants, it's inevitable we'll respect people.

There is a shade of red for every woman.

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know ... I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for,

I love people who make me laugh!

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

Paris is always a good idea.

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

As the years go on, you see changes in yourself, but you've got to face that - everyone goes through it ... Either you have to face up to it and tell yourself you're not going to be eighteen all your life, or be prepared for a terrible shock when you see the wrinkles and white hair. Getting older doesn't frighten me, but I wish I didn't have to because I like life a lot.

Life is a party. Dress for it.

I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.

You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or maybe just plain too ugly ... you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn't conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive.

For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Somebody said to me the other day, 'You know, it's really senseless, what you're doing. There's always been suffering, there will always be suffering, and you're just prolonging the suffering of these children [by rescuing them].' My answer is, 'Okay, then, let's start with your grandchild. Don't buy antibiotics if it gets pneumonia. Don't take it to the hospital of it has an accident. It's against life-against humanity-to think that way.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.

Never throw out anyone.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

Laughing is the best calorie burner.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'