Audrey Hepburn famous quotes

The most important thing is to enjoy your life - to be happy - it's all that matters.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Life #Happiness #Being Happy

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

#Love #Dog #Flower

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Beauty #Women #Passion

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

#Inspirational #Cute #Inspiring

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

#Beauty #Believe #Leisure

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Kindness #Lips #Speak

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Sex #Measurement #Appeals

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Fashion #Elegance #Never Fade

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

#Beauty #Beautiful #Kindness

Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Dream #Swimming #People

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

#Reading #My Favorite #Social

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Honesty #Reading #Fairytale

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Love #Inspirational #Positive

If I get married, I want to be very married.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Inspiring #Marriage #Couple

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

#Birthday #Marriage #Uplifting

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

#Happiness #Inspiring #Memories

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

#Inspiring #Wedding #Nice

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

#Children #War #Mean

I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Thinking #Looks #Faces

Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Inspiring #People #Style

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Beauty #Hair #Clothes

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

#Love #Anniversary #Inspiration

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others...
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Beautiful #Eye #Looks

I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Beautiful #Mother #Ugly Duckling

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Believe #Miracle #Doe

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

#Fashion #Shade #Red

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

#Beautiful #Writing #Differences

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

#Education #Wise #Children

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.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Self Confidence #Self #Tire

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Girl #Wrecks #Shade

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

#Beauty #Beautiful #Careers

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

#Feelings #Insecurity #Acting

For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Heart #Interest

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Self Esteem #Firsts #Rate

No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Life #Running #Matter

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

#People #Humanity #Suffering

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

#Inspiring #Father #Home

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.
-- 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

#Inspiring #Loneliness #Thinking

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

#Party #Dresses #Life Is

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

#Nice #Rain #Paris

Paris is always a good idea.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Inspirational #Travel #Ideas

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

#Inspirational #Life #Future

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

#Smile #Dream #Children

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

#Inspirational #Encouraging #Encouragement

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.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Running #Looks #Want

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Heart #Rose

Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Enjoy

You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Men #Thinking #Giving

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

#Stars #Law #Careers

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

#Giving #World #Injustice

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

#Women #I Hate You #Compassion

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

#Compassion #Giving #World

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

#Inspiring #Ideas #Lovely

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

#Beautiful #Beautiful Women #Scarves

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Stay Strong #Believe #Strong

Happy girls are always the prettiest
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Girl #Happy Girl #Prettiest

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

#Children #Husband #Flower

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

#Mother #Fall #Thinking

True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Soul #True Beauty

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Beauty #Girl #Happy Girl

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

#Thinking #Icons #People

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

#Dog #Half #Dutch

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Kindness #Eye #People

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Children #Thinking #Care

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

#Long #Victory #Able

I believe in pink, that laughing is the best calorie burner and that happy girls are the prettiest girls
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Girl #Believe #Laughing

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

#Fashion #Hair #Dresses

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Beautiful #Intellectual #Wells

I don’t take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously -
-- 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

#Inspiring #Beauty #Wise

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

#Birthday #Success #Disappointment

True friends are families which you can select.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#True Friend #Select

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

#Courage #Ambition #Careers

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Inspirational #Successful #Helping Others

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

#Love #Passion #Giving

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

#Motivational #Opportunity #Lucky

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

#Hilarious #Loneliness #Being Alone

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

#Makeup #Land #Faces

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

#Monday #Morning #Night

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

#Memories #Mean #Rome

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Faith #Nature #Believe

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

#Watches #World

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

#Giving

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.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Sex #Rain #Apples

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

#Beautiful #People #Gardening

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 #Queens #Thinking

Is there anything more important than a child?
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Children #Important

As much as I loved the art and discipline of the dance, it didn't love me!
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Art #Discipline

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

#Boring #Drink #Depravity

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

#Home #Drunk #Promise

No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long; you're just sad, that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling? Well, when I get it the only thing that does any good is to jump in a cab and go to Tiffany's. Calms me down right away. The quietness and the proud look of it. Nothing very bad could happen to you there. If I could find a real-life place that'd make me feel like Tiffany's, then - then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name!
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Real #Rain #Mean

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

#Too Much

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

#Thursday

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.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Compassion #Careers #Empathy

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.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Trying #Faces #Looks

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

#War #College #Strange

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

#Dog #Thinking #Doe

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

#Country #Children #Simple

I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.
-- Audrey Hepburn

#Children #Hunger #Hungry