Audrey Hepburn Motivational Quotes

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.

Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you don't carry it beyond the set.

I had to make a choice at one point in my life, of missing films or missing my children. It was a very easy decision to make because I missed my children so very much.

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

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

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.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

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!

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

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

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

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.

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

The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.

I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.

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