Audrey Hepburn Quotes

“True friends are families which you can select.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“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

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

“As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.”
― Jo Stockton

“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.”
― Audrey Hepburn

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

“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.”
― Richard Dreyfuss

“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.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.”
― Rex Reed

“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

“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.”
― Shirley Maclaine

“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.”
― Kevyn Aucoin

“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.”
― Andre Previn

“There is no doubt that the princess did become a queen---not only on the screen. One of the most loved, one of the most skillful, one of the most intelligent, one of the most sensitive, charming actresses---and friends, in my life---but also in the later stages of her life, the UNICEF ambassador to the children of the world. The generosity, sensitivity, the nobility of her service to the children of the world and the mothers of the world will never be forgotten.”
― Gregory Peck

“Audrey gave more than she ever got. The whole world is going to miss her.”
― Steven Spielberg

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

“We named the bar The Bar. "People will think we're ironic instead of creatively bankrupt," my sister reasoned.
Yes, we thought we were being clever New Yorkers - that the name was a joke no one else would really get, like we did. Not meta-get ... But our first customer, a gray-haired woman in bifocals and a pink jogging suit, said, "I like the name. Like in Breakfast at Tiffany's and Audrey Hepburn's cat was named Cat.”
― Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl

“Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that made you smile.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“She truly became our 'fair lady.' The children of the world have lost a true friend, and an important and eloquent advocate.”
― James P. Grant

“When my mother wanted to teach me a lesson about life,' said Luca Dotti, 'she never used stories about her career. She always told stories about the war. The war was very, very important to her. It made her who she was.”
― Robert Matzen, Dutch Girl: Audrey Hepburn and World War II

“I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's”
― Holly Golightly

“Wir waren einmal zufällig im selben portugiesicschem Hotel (wie Audrey Hepburn). Audrey mit ihrem niederländischem Ehemann, wie mit den Kindern. Ich saß manchmal ihrem Tisch gegenüber und starrte sie an wie ein Schaf. Wie ist es nur möglich, daß es so tolle Geschöpfe gibt.”
― Herman van Veen, Bevor ich es vergesse - Die Autobiographie

“Her emotional world was simple: If you love with all your might and take care of the other, he or she will do the same in return. How disappointing it is when we realise the world isn’t that way.”
― Sean Ferrer

“Everybody loved Audrey, she was so sweet and unassuming and nice to everybody. Some stars go to their dressing rooms between takes, but she didn’t.”
― Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

“Everything you have read, heard, or wished to be true about Audrey Hepburn, doesn’t come close to how wonderful she was. There’s not a human being on earth that was kinder, more gentle, more caring, more giving, brighter, and more modest than Audrey. She was just an extraordinary, extraordinary person. Everyone should know that.”
― Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

“There were human beings and there was Audrey Hepburn.”
― Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

“Breakfast at Tiffany's was one of the earliest pictures to ask us to be sympathetic toward a slightly immoral young woman. Movies were beginning to say that if you were imperfect, you didn’t have to be punished.”
― Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

“A movie without music is a little bit like an aeroplane without fuel. However beautifully the job is done, we are still on the ground and in a world of reality. Your music has lifted us all up and sent us soaring. Everything we cannot say with words or show with action you have expressed for us. You have done this with so much imagination, fun, and beauty. - Audrey Hepburn, to Henry Mancini”
― Sam Wasson, Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman

“I do not remotely look like Audrey Hepburn. Nobody does. That's the whole point of Audrey Hepburn.”
― Jessi Klein, You'll Grow Out of It

“Exasperated Film Director, to Audrey Hepburn
You're impossible!
Hepburn
No, I'm not, I really happened...”
― Audrey Hepburn