Audrey Hepburn Quotes

Happiness is health and a short memory!

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

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

Actually, depravity can be terribly boring if you don't smoke or drink.

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

You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.

I've always had- how shall I say it? -the prize at the end. My whole life shows that.

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

I went through a period of first successes. Then there was the inevitable change: the bad newspaper articles. Some people don't care about that, but I do. I'm hurt. I feel it. I don't think I've done anything dreadful. Sometimes you do things for reasons the press doesn't know. But I'm happy to go on as I have.

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

My goal was not to have huge luxuries. As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I have today. This is what I dreamed of. I’d never worry about age if I knew I could go on being loved and having the possibility to love... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection.

You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air. With one enormous chair; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Lots of choc'late for me to eat; Lots of coal makin' lots of heat. Warm face, warm 'ands, warm feet, Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Oh, so loverly sittin' abso-bloomin'-lutely still! I would never budge 'til spring crept over my window sill. Someone's head restin' on my knee; Warm and tender as he can be, who takes good care of me; Oh wouldn't it be loverly? Loverly, loverly, loverly, loverly.

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

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.

If you ever need a helping hand, it is at the end of your arm. As you get older you must remember you have a second hand. The first one is to help yourself. The second hand is to help others.

Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

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

When I get married, I want to be really married

I have always had a reputation for being frugal - less kind people might call me cheap. But my interest in building up a nest egg goes back to those days in Arnhem when I learned that money can grow, just like trees.

In Holland and Belgium, and afterwards in England, my happiest moments were in the country. I've always had a passion for the outdoors, for trees, for birds and flowers.

Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there's nothing more to live for.

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 have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

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

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.

Living is like tearing through a museum.

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing. Not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status. We have to feel for one another if we're going to survive with dignity.

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!

Paris is always a good idea.

I don't bite you know ... unless it's called for.

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

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.

And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.

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

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

Only the absolutely determined people succeed.

To be happy - that's all that matters.

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.

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

Laughing is the best calorie burner.

...walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The most important job in life is being a mom.

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

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.

My first big mission for UNICEF in Ethiopia was just to attract attention, before it was too late, to conditions which threatened the whole country. My role was to inform the world, to make sure that the people of Ethiopia were not forgotten.

To have beautiful lips, say beautiful things. To have beautiful eyes, look at people and see the good in them.

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 am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.

Cheating on a good woman is like choosing trash over treasure.

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

There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end.

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

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.

Happy girls are always the prettiest

Whatever a man might do, whatever misery or heartache your children might give you - and they give you a lot - however much your parents irritate you - it doesn't matter because you love them.