Audrey Hepburn Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Audrey Hepburn
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole,but true beauty in a Woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows. — 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
La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses. — Audrey Hepburn
There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can't we study peace? — 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
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.' — Audrey Hepburn
The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters. — 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
In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — Audrey Hepburn
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
A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human. — 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
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
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true. — Audrey Hepburn
Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up. — Audrey Hepburn
To be beautiful lips - say kind words. To my eyes were beautiful - radiate good. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes, not in its shape or hairstyle. Beauty woman in her eyes, because the eyes - is the gateway to the heart, where love lives. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — Audrey Hepburn
Life is a party. Dress for it. — Audrey Hepburn
If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world. — Audrey Hepburn
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. — Audrey Hepburn
I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility. — Audrey Hepburn
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — Audrey Hepburn
For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime. — Audrey Hepburn
Nothing is impossible. In fact, the word it's self says, 'I'm Possible! — Audrey Hepburn
The most important job in life is being a mom. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — 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
You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you. — Audrey Hepburn
When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I'm my own company. — 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
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. — Audrey Hepburn
[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children. — Audrey Hepburn
I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. — 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
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other. — Audrey Hepburn
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
Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — Audrey Hepburn
Only the absolutely determined people succeed. — Audrey Hepburn
Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department. — Audrey Hepburn
Never regret anything that makes you smile. — 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
Happiness is health and a short memory! — Audrey Hepburn
When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman — Audrey Hepburn
You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — Audrey Hepburn
Love is action. It isn't just talk, and it never was. — 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
Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed. — Audrey Hepburn
And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors. — Audrey Hepburn
We all want to be loved, don't we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It's a constant search for affection in every walk of life. — Audrey Hepburn
To pull off any look, wear it with confidence. — Audrey Hepburn
I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself. — Audrey Hepburn
Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out. — 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
Nothing is impossible, even the word it self says i'm possible. — Audrey Hepburn
It's sad if people think that's (homemaking) a dull existance, [but] you can't just buy an apartment and furnish it and walk away. It's the flowers you choose, the music you play, the smile you have waiting. I want it to be gay and cheerful, a haven in this troubled world. I don't want my husband and children to come home and find a rattled woman. Our era is already rattled enough, isn't it? — Audrey Hepburn
I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — Audrey Hepburn
To be happy - that's all that matters. — Audrey Hepburn
I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for, — Audrey Hepburn
My life isn't theories and formulae. It's part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I've absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone ... from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature. — Audrey Hepburn
I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them. — 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
I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family. — 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
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. — 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
And ... I think that's what life is all about, actually,
about children and flowers. — Audrey Hepburn
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
Thursday? Oh no, it can't be! It's too gruesome. — Audrey Hepburn
True beauty in a woman is reflected in the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows. — Audrey Hepburn
Look, whenever I hear or read I'm beautiful, I simply don't understand it ... I'm certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty. — 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
Everything I learned I learned from the movies. — Audrey Hepburn
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. — Audrey Hepburn
Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'! — Audrey Hepburn