Audrey Hepburn Quotes

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

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.

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

«به نظر من، هیچ‌چیز مثل تنهایی و کمبود محبّت آدم را نمی ترساند. حتی از پیری و مرگ هم ترسناک تر است... چرا مردم این همه نگران‌اند؟ همیشه تعادلی بین محبّتی که آدم ها در زندگی داشته اند، تنهایی های شان و آنچه از دست داده اند وجود دارد.»

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

I believe in Pink. I believe 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 seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

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

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.

I am more than ever awed and overwhelmed by the monumental talents it was my great, great privilege to work for and with. There is therefore no way I can thank you for this beautiful award without thanking all of them, because it is they who helped and honed, triggered and taught, pushed and pulled, dressed and photographed — and with endless patience and kindness and gentleness, guided and nurtured a totally unknown, insecure, inexperienced, skinny broad into a marketable commodity. I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world. Thank you, Screen Actors Guild and friends, for this huge honor — and for giving me this unique opportunity to express my deepest gratitude and love to all of those who have given me a career that has brought me nothing but happiness.

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.

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.

Everything I learned I learned from the
movies.

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