Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn: Since I was a child, I've believed in prayer. I have this faith that things somehow work out.

Audrey Hepburn: (Talking about Robert Wolders, her love since 1980) Robby has no ego, that's for sure. We love to live the same way - the country life. He's as bananas about our four dogs as I am. We're both Dutch and that's a big bond. It took me a long time to find someone like him, but sometimes it is better late than never. If I'd met him when I was 18, I wouldn't have appreciated him.

Audrey Hepburn: Even when I was little, what I wanted most was to have a child.

Audrey Hepburn: I definitely do not want to make movies for the sake of making movies or just stay busy in the industry.

Audrey Hepburn: Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles isn't a realist. UNICEF performs realistic miracles every day.

Audrey Hepburn: (talking about the importance of UNICEF work) Every child has the right to health, to tenderness, to life.

Audrey Hepburn: The last thing you want to be in acting is an introvert, which I am. I've never loved to perform. Oh, I liked it before hand-all the preparation-and I like it afterward, if it went well. But the thing itself is scary!

Audrey Hepburn: I am by nature neat, rather particular about my person. I like to look my best, not only for those around me, but for myself. I'm more casual at home than the public might think, but part of being a working movie star is maintaining a glamour and polish that set one apart.

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 (speaking about her first marriage to actor-director Mel Ferrer): Marriage is completion to everything I've ever wanted and hoped for.

Audrey Hepburn: I don't think a woman's measurements are what make her sexy. For example, sex alone won't make for a good marriage. It's important to keep excitement in marriage, to have happiness born of the wish to please each other. There would be fewer divorces if there was less emphasis on developing inward pleasures.

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 (talking about her humanitarian role) : I auditioned for this job for forty-five years and I finally got it. I always felt very powerless when I would see the terrible pictures on TV. But I was offered a wonderful opportunity to do something [and it] is a marvelous therapy to the anguish I feel.

Audrey Hepburn (on her appointment as a Goodwill Ambassador in 1989): 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 a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

Audrey Hepburn: The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

Audrey Hepburn (about tragedies happened in the world) : I saw one glaring truth: these are not natural disasters but man-made tragedies for which there is only one manmade solution-peace.

Audrey Hepburn (about enjoying life): 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:The most important thing is to enjoy life - to be happy - that's all that matters.

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: 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. In fact, I hiccup more than most.

Audrey Hepburn: Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Audrey Hepburn: My own life has been much more than a fairy tale. I've had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties I've gone through, I've always gotten the prize at the end.

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

Audrey Hepburn: It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don't ask for that. All I shall do is my best - and hope.

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: 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.

Audrey Hepburn (about her future in films): I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.

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: How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

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

Audrey Hepburn (on enjoying life): Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

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 was asked to act when I couldn't act. I was asked to sing 'Funny Face' when I couldn't sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn't dance - and do all kinds of things I wasn't prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it.

Audrey Hepburn (on beauty): There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

Audrey Hepburn: I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

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

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: People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Audrey Hepburn: Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Audrey Hepburn: 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.

Audrey Hepburn: My mother is Dutch, my father is Irish and I was born in Belgium, if I was a dog I'd be in a right mess.

Audrey Hepburn: Money never made anyone happy in and of itself, but it always gave me a real sense of security, so it enhanced my ability to be happy.

Audrey Hepburn (on what clothing means to her): I depend on Givenchy in the same way that American women depend on their psychiatrists.

Audrey Hepburn: I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

Audrey Hepburn: Sex appeal is something you feel deep down inside. I can convey as much fully clothed, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Audrey Hepburn: I need a lot of loving, being loved and giving love. Love does not terrify me, but the going-away of it does.

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: 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: It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so don't fuss, dear get on with it.

Audrey Hepburn: There's a very big division between what's in the public eye and what you feel about yourself. I never saw in myself what other people saw in me.

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

Audrey Hepburn (about her constant publicity): If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

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