Audrey Hepburn citáty

„S dospělostí zjistíte, že máte dvě ruce. Jednu, abyste pomáhali sobě, druhou abyste pomohli světu.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

„Elegance je ta jediná krása, která nikdy neslábne.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

„Pamatujte si, že pokaždé, když potřebujete pomocnou ruku, najdete ji na konci své paže.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

„Věřím v to, že šťastné ženy jsou krásné ženy.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

„Věřím v růžovou.
Věřím, že smích je nejlepší spalovač kalorií.
Věřím v líbání, v hodně líbání.
Věřím, že šťastné dívky jsou ty nejkrásnější dívky.
Věřím, že zítřek je novým začátkem,
a věřím v zázraky.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

„Narodila jsem se s neuvěřitelnou touhou milovat a s vášnivou potřebou lásku rozdávat.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

„Nikdo nepřispívá ve společnosti k zábavě tolik jako ti, kteří tam nejsou.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

„Móda je nákaza něčím novým.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

Zdroj: [Nejkrásnější Britka a bojovnice za dětská práva, http://www.diaryofthewinners.cz/nejkrasnejsi-britka-a-bojovnice-za-detska-prava/, 2016-02-28, 2018-03-20, Diary of the Winners, anglicky]

„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

p. 108

„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.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

Zdroj: How to be Lovely‎ (2005), p. 143

„I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

As quoted at UNICEF.org http://www.unicef.org/people/people_audrey_hepburn.html
Kontext: 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, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.

„I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, read by Julia Roberts, because of Audrey's failing health. (January 1993)
Kontext: I am more than ever awed and overwhelmed by the monumental talents it was my great, great privilege to work for and with. There is therefore no way I can thank you for this beautiful award without thanking all of them, because it is they who helped and honed, triggered and taught, pushed and pulled, dressed and photographed — and with endless patience and kindness and gentleness, guided and nurtured a totally unknown, insecure, inexperienced, skinny broad into a marketable commodity. I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world. Thank you, Screen Actors Guild and friends, for this huge honor — and for giving me this unique opportunity to express my deepest gratitude and love to all of those who have given me a career that has brought me nothing but happiness.

„I am more than ever awed and overwhelmed by the monumental talents it was my great, great privilege to work for and with.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, read by Julia Roberts, because of Audrey's failing health. (January 1993)
Kontext: I am more than ever awed and overwhelmed by the monumental talents it was my great, great privilege to work for and with. There is therefore no way I can thank you for this beautiful award without thanking all of them, because it is they who helped and honed, triggered and taught, pushed and pulled, dressed and photographed — and with endless patience and kindness and gentleness, guided and nurtured a totally unknown, insecure, inexperienced, skinny broad into a marketable commodity. I am proud to have been in a business that gives pleasure, creates beauty, and awakens our conscience, arouses compassion, and perhaps most importantly, gives millions a respite from our so violent world. Thank you, Screen Actors Guild and friends, for this huge honor — and for giving me this unique opportunity to express my deepest gratitude and love to all of those who have given me a career that has brought me nothing but happiness.

„Living is like tearing through a museum.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

As quoted in Audrey Hepburn : A Bio-bibliography (1994) by David Hofstede
Kontext: 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 all in at once.

„I always love it when people write me and say "I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference."“

—  Audrey Hepburn

How to be Lovely‎ (2005)
Kontext: People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say "I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference."

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

—  Audrey Hepburn

As quoted in Audrey Hepburn : A Life in Pictures (2007) by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac

„Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

David Ben Gurion, as quoted in Psychosocial Care of the Dying Patient (1978) by Charles A. Garfield
Misattributed

„People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say "I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference."“

—  Audrey Hepburn

How to be Lovely‎ (2005)

„As a child, I was taught that it was bad manners to bring attention to yourself, and to never, ever make a spectacle of yourself … All of which I've earned a living doing.“

—  Audrey Hepburn

Zdroj: How to be Lovely‎ (2005), p. 8