Audrey Hepburn

Actress, Humanitarian

Audrey Hepburn was a celebrated actress and humanitarian known for her iconic roles and commitment to children's rights.

Born
May 4, 1929
Died
January 20, 1993
Quotes
178
Rank
#280

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"Never throw out anyone."

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"If we are meant to "love thy neighbor as theyself," then surely we should love the world's children as our own."

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"Living is like tearing through a museum."

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"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... So it isn’t age or even death that one fears, as much as loneliness and the lack of affection."

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"Ive had my share of difficult moments, but whatever difficulties Ive gone through, Ive always gotten a prize at the end."

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"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."

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"My greatest ambition is to have a career without becoming a career woman."

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

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"It makes me self-conscious. It's because I'm known, in the limelight, that it's getting all the gravy, but if you knew, if you saw some of the people who make it possible for UNICEF to help these children survive. These are the people who do the jobs-the unknowns, whose names you will never know...I at least get a dollar a year, but they don't."

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"I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine."

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"Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit."

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"I realize that most of us live on the skin - on the surface - without appreciating just how wonderful it is simply to be alive at all."

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"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."

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

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

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

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"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."

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

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"Can I have a silk nightgown with rosebuds on it?"

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