Hepburn Quotes

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

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

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.

If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.

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)

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

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.

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

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone. ... We leave you a tradition with a future. The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete. People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody. Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.

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

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

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

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything

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

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.

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.

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.

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.

Paris is always a good idea.

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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'.

Happy girls are the prettiest

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

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

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.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

I have not lived as a woman. I have lived as a man. I've just done what I damn well wanted to, and I've made enough money to support myself, and ain't afraid of being alone.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

True friends are families which you can select.

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

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

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.

Blair liked to think of herself as a hopeless romantic in the style of old movie actresses like Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. She was always coming up with plot devices for the movie she was starring in at the moment, the movie that was her life.

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.

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

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.

What in the world would we do without our libraries?

Anyone who does not believe in miracles is not a realist.

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

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

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

What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

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

Elegance is the only beauty that never fades.

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

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

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

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

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.

Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

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.

The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things will happen. What you do is move along, get on with it, and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.

Never complain. Never explain.

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

If you need a helping hand, you can find one at the end of your arm.

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

You can’t change the music of your soul. —In Esquire, 1967

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!

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.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

There is a shade of red for every woman.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

I have loved and been in love. There's a big difference.

I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.

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.

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 hate girls that giggle all the time... You hate any girl that David looks at.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.

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

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get — only what you are expecting to give — which is everything. What you will receive in return varies. But it really has no connection with what you give. You give because you love and cannot help giving.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

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

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.

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

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.

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?