Top 150 Audrey Hepburn Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.”

— Audrey Hepburn

52. “I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.”

— Audrey Hepburn

53. “Happiness is health and a short memory!”

— Audrey Hepburn

54. “Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering – because you can’t take it in all at once.”

— Audrey Hepburn

55. “There is a shade of red for every woman.”

— Audrey Hepburn

56. “Whatever you love most, you fear you might lose, you know it can change. Why do you look from left to right when you cross the street? Because you don’t want to get run over. But, you still cross the street.”

— Audrey Hepburn

57. “Who thinks you’re as fantastic as your dog does?”

— Audrey Hepburn

58. “Giving is living. If you stop wanting to give, there’s nothing more to live for.”

— Audrey Hepburn

59. “A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

61. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

62. “You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don’t try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.”

— Audrey Hepburn

63. “We all want to be loved, don’t we? Everyone looks for a way of finding love. It’s a constant search for affection in every walk of life.”

— Audrey Hepburn

64. “If we are meant to “love thy neighbor as theyself,” then surely we should love the world’s children as our own.”

— Audrey Hepburn

65. “I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.”

— Audrey Hepburn

66. “Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.”

— Audrey Hepburn

67. “The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

69. “There are more important things than outward appearance. No amount of makeup can cover an ugly personality.”

— Audrey Hepburn

70. “Why change? Everyone has his own style. When you have found it, you should stick to it.”

— Audrey Hepburn

71. “Good things aren’t supposed to just fall into your lap. God is very generous, but He expects you to do your part first.”

— Audrey Hepburn

72. “I will not rest until no child goes hungry. All is possible.”

— Audrey Hepburn

73. “Some people dream of having a big swimming pool. With me, it’s closets.”

— Audrey Hepburn

74. “On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.”

— Audrey Hepburn

75. “I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.”

— Audrey Hepburn

76. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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

— Audrey Hepburn

78. “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. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.”

— Audrey Hepburn

79. “I have no illusions about my looks. I think my face is funny.”

— Audrey Hepburn

80. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

81. “Pick the day. Enjoy it– to the hilt.”

— Audrey Hepburn

82. “As a matter of fact, I rather feel like expressing myself now.”

— Audrey Hepburn

83. “Never throw out anyone.”

— Audrey Hepburn

84. “It always boils down to the same thing – not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.”

— Audrey Hepburn

85. “For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.”

— Audrey Hepburn

86. “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

87. “You can only hope to get a combination of happy work and a happy life.”

— Audrey Hepburn

88. “I may not always be offered work, but I’ll always have my family.”

— Audrey Hepburn

89. “Thursday? Oh no, it can’t be! It’s too gruesome.”

— Audrey Hepburn

90. “Promise me one thing: don’t take me home until I’m drunk – very drunk indeed.”

— Audrey Hepburn

91. “I lack self-confidence. I don’t know whether I shall ever get it. Perhaps it is better to be unsure of your self, as I am. But it is very tiring.”

— Audrey Hepburn

92. “It is too much to hope that I shall keep up my success. I don’t ask for that. All I shall do is my best- and hope.”

— Audrey Hepburn

93. “And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.”

— Audrey Hepburn

94. “And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!”

— Audrey Hepburn

95. “What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably – seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.”

— Audrey Hepburn

96. “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.”

— Audrey Hepburn

97. “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.’”

— Audrey Hepburn

98. “I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn’t enjoy it all when it happened.”

— Audrey Hepburn

99. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says “I’M POSSIBLE!”

— Audrey Hepburn

100. “For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart.”

— Audrey Hepburn