Top 100 Audrey Hepburn Quotes
#1. You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
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#2. How shall I sum up my life?
I think I've been particularly lucky.
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#3. When I wear a silk scarf I never feel so definitely like a woman, a beautiful woman
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#4. 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.
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#5. 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)
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#6. 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.
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#7. 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'.
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#8. 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.
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#9. Nothing is impossible, even the word it self says i'm possible.
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#10. Nothing is impossible, the world it's self says I'm possible!
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#11. 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.
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#12. I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
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#13. Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
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#14. If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.
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#15. There is one difference between a long life & a great dinner; in the dinner, the sweet things come last.
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. 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.
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#20. I lack self-confidence. I don't know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.
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#21. Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end.
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#22. 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 ...
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#24. I never think about myself as an icon ... I just do my thing.
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#25. True beauty in a woman is reflected in the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows.
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#26. I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.
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#30. 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.
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#31. 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.
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#32. People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
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#33. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
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#34. Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you don't carry it beyond the set.
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#36. 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.
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#37. 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.
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#38. 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.
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#40. 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.
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#41. As a matter of fact, I rather feel
like expressing myself now.
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#42. I've been lucky. Opportunities don't often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
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#43. I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.
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#45. I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.
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#46. If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?
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#49. 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.
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#50. 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.
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#51. Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me.
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#53. And ... I think that's what life is all about, actually,
about children and flowers.
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#54. 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.
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#56. Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.
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#57. 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.
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#58. You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.
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#59. 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.'
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#60. For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.
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#61. 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.
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#62. I have learnt how to live ... how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.
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#63. I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.
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#64. 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.
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#66. When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
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#67. I'd never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and have the possibility to love.
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#68. Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.
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#69. I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.
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#71. Love is action. It isn't just talk, and it never was.
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#73. I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
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#74. 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.
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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
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#78. 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.
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#79. The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
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#81. My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.
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#82. It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.
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#84. 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.
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#85. And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.
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#86. My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.
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#87. 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.
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#88. 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.
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#89. As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!
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#91. 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.'
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#92. Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.
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#93. 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.
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#94. Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.
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#95. Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.
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#96. Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
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#97. If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.
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#98. My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.
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#99. 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.
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#100. I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.
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