Audrey Hepburn Quotes

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Honey, you [Michael Jackson] gotta pick a race first. All of a sudden you're a black man, then you're Diana Ross, now you're Audrey Hepburn. Then he's got the little beard going on. He's like Lord of the Rings, the entire cast. Michael's about to jump species. ~ Robin Williams

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. ~ Sam Levenson

Across from the famous jewelry store on Fifth Avenue at Fifty-Seventh Street, we sat in the back of a graffiti-covered white box truck watching the world go by on the surveillance vehicle's hidden high-def camera. So far there had been no sign of the thieves. Or even Audrey Hepburn. ~ James Patterson

When my mother wanted to teach me a lesson about life,' said Luca Dotti, 'she never used stories about her career. She always told stories about the war. The war was very, very important to her. It made her who she was. ~ Robert Matzen

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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? ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Who thinks you're as fantastic as your dog does? ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

If you're going to rip someone off, it might as well be Audrey Hepburn. ~ Marisa De Los Santos

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

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

I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal. ~ Gloria Steinem

I love Audrey Hepburn. ~ Kourtney Kardashian

To pull off any look, wear it with confidence. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

I've always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn. ~ Amy Acker

She took a deep breath and it was her eighteenth birthday; it was Jess's wedding and a summer evening at the pool; it was all those hundreds of times he'd been propped against her dorm building. And it was now, and she wanted to be this sophisticated, Audrey Hepburn-esque girl who gave him a coy smile and sauntered toward him, hips swinging. But this was Tam, and she wasn't sophisticated for crap. ~ Lauren Gilley

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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 ~ Audrey Hepburn

Like every fiction, Holly Golightly was a composite of multiple nonfictions. ~ Sam Wasson

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

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

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

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

Happy girls are the prettiest ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

There is a shade of red for every woman. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Mind you, Roman Holiday - which is kind of a romantic comedy - is one of my favorite films, and I think Audrey Hepburn is absolutely phenomenal in that movie. ~ Ellen Page

If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with humanitarian campaigns. The more engaged you can become the more you can shed your self-consciousness. ~ Cate Blanchett

When I get married, I want to be really married ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

Life is a party. Dress for it. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Oh, my dear! I'm afraid you've mistaken
me for someone else! My name is Rhea Silvia. I was the mother to Romulus and Remus, thousands of years ago. But you're so kind to think I look as young as the 1950s. ~ Rick Riordan

Honey, were you trying to be a 1950s beatnik from Funny Face or something?" He guesses, correctly. "It is one thing to channel your inner Audrey Hepburn, but it is quite another to wear a mock turtleneck and capris to a Hollywood event. This is the big time, sweetheart; you best check your costume at the door. ~ Katie Delahanty

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

I've always dug Audrey Hepburn. I think she's one of the classic beauties. ~ Estelle

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection. ~ Rex Reed

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery. ~ Pixie Lott

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

I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess! ~ Audrey Hepburn

I am quite scandalous, you see. I come packaged with unpredictable moments, brutal honesty, calamitous outbursts, the ghastly need for love, a fiendish lack of filter, the horrific need to question everything, nauseating affection, offensive kindness, indecent spirituality, obscene beauty, monstrous creativity, barbaric embellishments, contemptuous passion, sinful childhood traumas, unscrupulous hobbies, vexatious caring, abominable sensitivity, reprehensible humor, hideous sarcasm, displeasing feelings, unpalatable confidence, offensive compassion, villainous inspiration and a devilish wit. I am quite grotesque in my imperfectness and I am not ashamed to admit it. ~ Shannon L. Alder

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

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

7.Remain calm and poised at all times, just like Audrey Hepburn; ~ Piper Banks

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

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

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) ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

Paris is always a good idea...
Audrey Hepburn ~ Barbara Donsky

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

The most important thing is growing old gracefully. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Never throw out anyone. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Viv, I just made you wild-caught Alaskan salmon baked with mango chutney, on a bed of garlic red potatoes and arugula. While talking about an Audrey Hepburn movie. I think you are maybe falling in love with me. ~ Emery Lord

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Never in my life have I been captivated by by anybody onscreen the way I was when I saw Audrey Hepburn for the first time. She's everything a woman should be. ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt

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

If I get married, I want to be very married. - AUDREY HEPBURN ~ Ashleigh Slater

I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. ~ Audrey Hepburn

Think carefully about whom you model yourself after, because that's how your date - and the world will see you. And it is how you will come to see yourself. Who you are as a girlfriend is a harbinger of who you will be as a wife. Consider comporting yourself with the dignity, grace, and elegance of Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly, or Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. These were women of outstanding character, beloved by all and desired by men of substance. ~ Susan Patton

Winning the Pulitzer is a really mellow, fabulous thing. You don't sit and wait for them to open an envelope. You already know you won, and you have a nice lunch. Oscars are more stressful. I had to sit for three hours and wait for my category. I had to fly to Los Angeles. For the Pulitzer I just had to go up to Columbia. But, while the president of Columbia gave me the Pulitzer, Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck gave me the Oscar, so that was better. ~ John Patrick Shanley

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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.' ~ Audrey Hepburn

My style is Edie Sedgwick meets Grace Jones, or Audrey Hepburn meets Salt 'n' Pepa. Strong and feisty but still classic. ~ Estelle

Everything you have read, heard, or wished to be true about Audrey Hepburn, doesn't come close to how wonderful she was. There's not a human being on earth that was kinder, more gentle, more caring, more giving, brighter, and more modest than Audrey. She was just an extraordinary, extraordinary person. Everyone should know that. ~ Sam Wasson

For her, being an American was loathing America, but loving America was something he could not let go of any more than he could let go of loving his father and his mother, any more than he could have let go of his decency. How could she "hate" this country when she had no conception of this country? How could a child of his be so blind as to revile the "rotten system" that had given her own family every opportunity to succeed? To revile her "capitalist" parents as though their wealth were the product of anything other than the unstinting industry of three generations. The men of three generations, including even himself, slogging through the slime and stink of a tannery. The family that started out in a tannery, at one with, side by side with, the lowest of the low - now to her "capitalist dogs." There wasn't much difference and she knew it, between hating America and hating them. He loved the America she hated and blamed for everything that was imperfect in life and wanted violently to overturn, he loved the "bourgeois values" she hated and ridiculed and wanted to subvert, he loved the mother she hated and had all but murdered by doing what she did. Ignorant fucking bitch! The price they had paid! Why shouldn't he tear up this Rita Cohen letter? They were back! The sadistic mischief-makers with their bottomless talent for antagonism who had extorted from him the Audrey Hepburn scrapbook, the stuttering diary, and the ballet shoes, these delinquent young brutes calling themse ~ Philip Roth

I've a great sense of privacy. WRiters have to have an angle. If you say less than what you m ight tell your husband or your doctor, then You're 'mysterious'...Basically, I don't like the one-sided talk about myself. I don't enjoy the process of cross-examination: I find it absolutely sapping, I've been made mistrustful by being burned." -Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn, A Photographic Celebration ~ Suzanne Lander

True beauty in a woman is reflected in the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows. ~ Audrey Hepburn

I love people who make me laugh.
I honestly think it's the
thing I like most,to
Laugh.
It cures a multitude of
Ills.
It's probably the most
Important thing in a
person ... ~ Audrey Hepburn

Never regret anything that makes you smile. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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

Everything I learned I learned from the movies. ~ Audrey Hepburn

What I fell in love with as a child was 'My Fair Lady,' 'Funny Face,' 'American in Paris,' and 'Singin' in the Rain.' Just perfect movies to me and I was dancing. I started ballet when I was three. And I fell in love with those movies and fell in love with Audrey Hepburn and Leslie Caron. ~ Dianna Agron

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

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. ~ Audrey Hepburn

I think it's just important to not judge people based on their physicality because it's really about personality and people's hearts and souls. That's what drew me to Audrey Hepburn who is kind of like my icon. ~ Lily Collins

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

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

There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen
not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful, one of the most intelligent, one of the most sensitive, charming actresses
and friends, in my life
but also in the later stages of her life, the UNICEF ambassador to the children of the world. The generosity, sensitivity, the nobility of her service to the children of the world and the mothers of the world will never be forgotten. ~ Gregory Peck