Audrey Hepburn Quotes

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., 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.'

Never regret anything that makes you smile.

Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

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

This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.

If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own.

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

Well, it's nice being top banana in the shock department.

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.

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.

Never throw out anyone.

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.

True friends are families which you can select.

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

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?

What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.

I may not always be offered work, but I'll always have my family.

To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.

I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind.

If you lead a simple life, and that story is written, then that story will not satisfy. It needs an angle. Suppose there is no angle?

Water is life, and clean water means health.

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.

There is a science of war, but how strange that there isn't a science of peace. There are colleges of war; why can’t we study peace?

Each, in its own way, was unforgettable. It would be difficult to - Rome! By all means, Rome. I will cherish my visit here in memory as long as I live.

...perhaps that is what ultimately unites us as a world: the fact that, no matter how prosperous a nation, how developed, all share the plight and embarrassment of having so many suffering children. We are united by our neglect, our abuse, our absence of love. Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

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.

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.

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.

I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.

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.

Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.

How shall I sum up my life? I think I've been particularly lucky. Does that have something to do with faith also? I know my mother always used to say, 'Good things aren't supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first.' So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, I've always had - how shall I say it? - the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

Ricorda, se hai bisogno di una mano la troverai alla fine del tuo braccio. Remember, if you need a hand you'll find it at the end of your arm.

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

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.

The most important thing is growing old gracefully.

I think sex is overrated. I don't have sex appeal and I know it. As a matter of fact, I think I'm rather funny looking. My teeth are funny, for one thing, and I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness.

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree.

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 never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened.

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.'

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

Thursday? Oh no, it can't be! It's too gruesome.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

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

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.

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

Is there anything more important than a child?

Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.

I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.

For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. ­

A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.

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.

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

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

To be beautiful lips - say kind words. To my eyes were beautiful - radiate good. A woman's beauty is not in the clothes, not in its shape or hairstyle. Beauty woman in her eyes, because the eyes - is the gateway to the heart, where love lives.

I love people who make me laugh!

Fewer things are lovelier to me than a full-blown rose when it opens up its heart.