Audrey Hepburn

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.’

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.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

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

I don't take my life seriously, but I do take what I do – in my life – seriously.

Laughing is the best calorie burner.

There is a shade of red for every woman.

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

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

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

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

Life is a party. Dress for it.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

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

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

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

Everything I learned I learned from the movies.

Who thinks you're as fantastic as your dog does?

We can't have you walking up the Champs Elysses looking like a tourist undertaker! And another thing, never a briefcase in Paris and never an umbrella. There's a law.

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