Talk:Audrey Hepburn

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• Always be a first rate version of yourself.
• 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!

• Some people dream of having a big swimming pool — with me, it's closets.

• I can take long walks, as I understand Greta Garbo does, and no one interferes with my thoughts and tranquility. Come to think of it, the other day I was on Fifth Avenue in New York and I saw a woman who could very well have been Garbo; I was a bit tempted to go up to her, but then I thought, "My God, practice what you preach! If it is her, you'll be intruding - just the thing you don't like yourself."

• Living is not 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 all in at once.

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

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

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

• My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

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

• As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself... All of which I've earned a living doing.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 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."

• Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.