Audrey Hepburn Quotations

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

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

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

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

If I get married, I want to be very married.

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

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.'

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

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.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

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

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

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.

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.

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.

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

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

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.

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.

Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?

And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.

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

Living is like tearing through a museum.

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.

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

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

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

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

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

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

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

You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

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?

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.

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.

As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

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.

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.

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.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Who thinks you're as fantastic as your dog does?

I believe in miracles.

And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.

People in these places don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognise 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.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

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

It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't.

...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?

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

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

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?

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.

I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.

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.

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

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.

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

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.