Audrey Hepburn

“La Vie En Rose. It is the French way of saying, 'I am looking at the world through rose-coloured glasses.”

“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?”

“No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself”

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

“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.”

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

“There is a shade of red for every woman.”

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

“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.”

“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?”

“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.”

“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.”

“Sex appeal is something that you feel deep down inside. It’s suggested rather than shown. I’m not as well-stacked as Sophia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida, but 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.”

“The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.”

“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”

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

“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.”

“walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”

“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.”

“A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.”

“My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman.”

“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.”

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

“I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.”

“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.”

“Good things aren't supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.”

“There is one difference between a long life & a great dinner; in the dinner, the sweet things come last.”

“True friends are families which you can select.”

“Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if you're ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.”

“Happy girls are the prettiest”

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”

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

“Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets”

“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 never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.”

“Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio.Remember, if you need a hand you'll find it at the end of your arm.”

“I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.”

“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)”

“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.”

“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.”

“For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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”

“And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!”