Audrey Hepburn's best quotes (the ones she really said)
The top 3 according to 28 votes from people: 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. · Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw. · 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!. (Updated Mar 10, 2021.)
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.
Top 10
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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.
How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life, by Melissa Hellstern (2004).
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Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw.
Quoted in Audrey Hepburn: A Bio-bibliography, by David Hofstede (1994).
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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!
Audrey Hepburn, biography by Barry Paris.
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4
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
Quoted in Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures (2007).
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Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.
Audrey Hepburn, biography by Barry Paris.
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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.
How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life, by Melissa Hellstern (2004).
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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.
As UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, quoted on unicef.org.
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I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it.
Interview in The New York Times (1991).
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I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience.
Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award speech, read by Julia Roberts (1993).
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As a child, I was taught… to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself… All of which I've earned a living doing.
How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life, by Melissa Hellstern (2004).
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