1. I was born with something that appealed to an audience at that particular time…I acted instinctively. I’ve had one of the greatest schools of all – a whole row of great, great directors.

- Audrey Hepburn

2. When you have found it, you should stick to it.

- Audrey Hepburn

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

7. 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

8. 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

9. She did the best that we could be; she was perfectly charming and perfectly loving. She was a dream. And she was the kind of dream that you remember when you wake up smiling. In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Audrey Hepburn

11. Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there’s nothing more to live for.

- Audrey Hepburn

12. Life is a party. Dress for it.

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Audrey Hepburn

14. For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart.

- Audrey Hepburn

15. 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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Audrey Hepburn

18. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

19. 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

20. 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

21. Dress like you are already famous.

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Audrey Hepburn

23. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

24. 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

25. 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

26. If I’m honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all.

- Audrey Hepburn

27. To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

- Audrey Hepburn

28. 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

29. Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Audrey Hepburn

31. The extraordinary mystique of hers made you think she lived on rose petals and listened to nothing but Mozart, but it wasn’t true. She was quite funny and ribald. She could tell a dirty joke. She played charades with a great sense of fun and vulgarity, and she could be quite bitchy.

- Audrey Hepburn

32. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

33. 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

34. 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

35. People in these places 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

36. The beauty in 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 and that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows and the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.

- Audrey Hepburn

37. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

38. I believe, every day, you should have at least one exquisite moment.

- Audrey Hepburn

39. I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s mind is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

- Audrey Hepburn

40. 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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

42. Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn’t have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.

- Audrey Hepburn

43. 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

44. For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Audrey Hepburn

46. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

47. Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

- Audrey Hepburn

48. 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

49. In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

- Audrey Hepburn

50. 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

51. I saw but one glaring truth: These are not natural disasters but man-made tragedies for which there is only one man-made solution-peace.

- Audrey Hepburn

52. 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

53. Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.

- Audrey Hepburn

54. Water is life, and clean water means health.

- Audrey Hepburn

55. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Audrey Hepburn

57. Elegance is the only beauty that never fades. A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual. 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

58. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

59. 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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

61. 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

62. 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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

64. The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

- Audrey Hepburn

65. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

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.

- Audrey Hepburn

67. 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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

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

- Audrey Hepburn

70. Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn’t act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.

- Audrey Hepburn

71. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

72. True friends are families which you can select.

- Audrey Hepburn

73. 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

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

- Audrey Hepburn

75. I’m not a born actress, as such, I care about expressing feelings.

- Audrey Hepburn

76. She truly became our ‘fair lady.’ The children of the world have lost a true friend, and an important and eloquent advocate.

- Audrey Hepburn

77. Paris is always a good idea.

- Audrey Hepburn

78. 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

79. 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

80. They say love is the best investment; the more you give, the more you get in return.”

- Audrey Hepburn

81. 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

82. 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

83. There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.

- Audrey Hepburn

84. 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

85. And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

- Audrey Hepburn

86. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

87. [I have] enormous faith, but it’s not attached to any one in particular religion. My mother was one thing, my father another. In Holland they were all Calvinists. That has no importance at all to me.

- Audrey Hepburn

88. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

89. Also, can we take a moment to appreciate the fact that there has never been and probably will never be another actress as thoroughly lovable as Audrey Hepburn.

- Audrey Hepburn

90. 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.

- Audrey Hepburn

91. 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

92. The 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 like to be. But I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.

- Audrey Hepburn