Audrey Hepburn Quotes - Page 6

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

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

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.

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

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 can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

And...I think that's what life is all about, actually, about children and flowers.

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

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

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.

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.