# Audrey Hepburn's best quotes (the ones she really said)

Half-Irish, half-Dutch and born in Belgium, life as a museum you tear through and the people who make her laugh: Audrey Hepburn quotes with a real source, leaving out the viral 'I believe in pink' she never said.

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## Top 10

1. **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.** (5 · ▲5 ▼0) — How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life, by Melissa Hellstern (2004).
2. **Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw.** (4 · ▲4 ▼0) — Quoted in Audrey Hepburn: A Bio-bibliography, by David Hofstede (1994).
3. **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!** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Audrey Hepburn, biography by Barry Paris.
4. **Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.** (3 · ▲3 ▼0) — Quoted in Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures (2007).
5. **Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Audrey Hepburn, biography by Barry Paris.
6. **I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people's minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life, by Melissa Hellstern (2004).
7. **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.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — As UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, quoted on unicef.org.
8. **I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Interview in The New York Times (1991).
9. **I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience.** (1 · ▲2 ▼1) — Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award speech, read by Julia Roberts (1993).
10. **As a child, I was taught… to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself… All of which I've earned a living doing.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life, by Melissa Hellstern (2004).

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