Audrey Hepburn,
actress, style icon, ambassador for UNICEF
Audrey Hepburn Quotes - quotes and sayings by Audrey Hepburn – about her work
"I’ve never believed in this ‘God-given talent.’ I adored my work and I did my best. "
"I act the same way now as I did forty years ago… with feeling instead of technique. All my life I’ve been in situations where I’ve had no technique, but if you feel enough you can get away with murder."
"After looking inside an insane asylum, visiting a leper colony, talking to missionary workers, and watching operations, I felt very enriched. I developed a new kind of inner peacefulness. A calmness. Things that once seemed so important weren’t important any longer."
Audrey Hepburn Quotes – the quotes and sayings by Audrey Hepburn – about life and about beauty
"I have often thought of myself as quite ugly. In fact, I used to have quite a complex about it. To be frank, I’ve often been depressed and deeply disappointed in myself. You can even say that I hated myself at certain periods. I was too fat, or maybe too tall, or just plain too ugly. I couldn’t seem to handle any of my problems or cope with people I met. If you want to get psychological, you can say my definiteness stems from underlying feelings of insecurity and inferiority. I couldn’t conquer these feelings by acting indecisive. I found the only way to get the better of them was … by adopting a forceful, concentrated drive."
"My greatest asset is my discontent."
"I was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it. That’s what I’d like to think maybe has been the appeal. People have recognized something in me they have themselves – the need to receive affection and the need to give it."
"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. If I’m old and my husband doesn’t want me, or my children think me ugly and do not want me – that would be a tragedy. So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection."
Audrey Hepburn Quotes - quotes about her
"My first impression of Audrey when we finally saw each other was how simple and direct she was. She was gentle, delicate and sensitive. But full of life and sparkle."
- Mel Ferrer
"She had that rare thing – audience authority, the thing that makes everybody look at you when you are on stage."
- Cathleen Nesbitt
"She takes up one point at a time, never skips or flashes back…When she reads, she reads; when she fits, she fits; when she talks clothes, she talks clothes; when she sits under a drier, she simply sits and dries. ‘She is the only actress I’ve ever had who doesn’t gab, read, knit, wriggle, pick her teeth, or eat a lettuce and tomato sandwich,’ says her hairdresser."
- Cosmopolitan
"Her career can be split into two chapters. In the first part she received all the glory she could hope for, and in the second part she gave back, in spades, what she had received."
- Leslie Caron, friend
"Audrey is a magical combination of high chic and high spirits."
- Gregory Peck, actor
"Clothes look great or not so great, depending on who’s wearing them. I truly feel Audrey gave Givenchy a look. As time went on, they collaborated, but I think she picked what was Audrey out of Givenchy. The same for my clothes. She just picked from them what was right for her."
- Ralph Lauren, fashion designer
