You must have people around you who understand the same music. -Givenchy

#7: AUDREY HEPBURN

Richard Dreyfuss: "She was the best that we could possibly be. She was perfectly charming and perfectly loving. She was a dream; she was the dream that you remember when you wake up smiling."

AUDREY ON SEX APPEAL AND STYLE:

"I have more sex appeal on the tip of my nose than many women have in their entire bodies. It doesn't stand out a mile, but it is there."

"Sex appeal is something that you feel deep down. It's suggested rather than shown. I'm not as well-stacked as Sophia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida, but there is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much appeal fully clothed, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain."

"Some people dream of having a big swimming pool - with me, it's closets."

On the Cecil Beaton dress she wore to the ball in My Fair Lady: "All I had to do was walk down those stairs. The dress made me do it."

AUDREY ON HER MOVIES:

"Those movies were fairy tales. That's always been me... I've never changed. A princess or a flower girl were all parts of me and I was parts of them."

"If ever I want to accentuate the importance of anything in any form of entertainment, it is the quality of the fairy tale. People go to the theatre and the cinema for the same reason that makes them like fairy tales."

"People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses and you heard beautiful music. I always love it whne people write to 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.'"

"All my life I've been in situations where I've had no technique, but if you feel enough you can get away with murder."

AUDREY ON ROMANCE:

"Sabrina was a romantic who lived in a fairy tale, and she was a romantic, an incorrigible romantic, which I am. I could never be cynical. I wouldn't die. I'd roll over and die before that."

"I let my heart get the better of me. I often let my heart get the better of me!"

HOLLY GOLIGHTLY: "I'll tell you one thing, Fred darling, I'd marry you for your money in a minute. Would you marry me for my money?"

PAUL VARJAK: "In a minute."

HOLLY: "Well, I guess it's lucky neither of us is rich, huh?"
(Skip to 1:09 on the trailer to see this exchange):-


"Why do you look left or right when you cross the street? Because you don't want to get run over. But, you still cross the street."

AUDREY ON AUDREY:

"I did War and Peace in velvet and furs in August... In the the hunting scene the family was plodding across a big field in the blazing Roman sunshine and, all of a sudden, my horse fainted out from under me... So when they say I'm strong as a horse, I am. I'm stronger! I didn't faint. The horse did."

"I'm rather cheerful by nature - it's my best defence against the aches on the inside."

"I'm an introvert... I love being by mself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at trees, flowers, the sky."

AUDREY ON LIFE IN GENERAL:

"Not to live for the day, that would be materialistic - but to treasure the day. 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."

"The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree."

"The world has always been cynical, and I think I'm a romantic at heart. I hope for better things, and I thank God the world is also full of people who want to be genuine and kind."

"I am filled with rage at ourselves. I don't believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility."

"Well, it's all about the same thing, isn't it? Children and flowers, it's life, it's survival... I think that's what life's about, actually - about children and flowers."

AUDREY ON THE LITTLE THINGS:

"Would you be awfully shocked if I poured myself a small whisky? It's awfully early, I know, but it must be 6'o'clock somewhere in the world."

"Let's face it, a nice creamy chocolate cake does a lot for a lot of people; it does for me."

OTHERS ON AUDREY:

Gregory Peck: "Audrey was as funny as she was beautiful. She was a magical combination of high chic and high spirits."

"Most people think of Audrey Hepburn as regal. I like to think of her as spunky... She was a cut-up, she was a clown. I think that would surprise people who didn't know her."

Vera Wang: Audrey dressed contrary to Hollywood at that time, she dressed for herself... The thing that strikes me about Audrey, still, is her courageousness of her personal style."

The Rat Pack called her "The Princess," and Frank Sinatra described her as "the kind of girl... they built best-selling musicals around."

Rob Wolders: Part of her charm was "not taking herself too seriously, but seriously enough."

Cecil Beaton: "In a flash, I discovered Audrey Hepburn chock-a-block with spritelike charm, and she had a sort of waifish, poignant sympathy. Without any of the preliminaries I felt she cut through to the basic understanding that makes people friends."

Pamela Keogh: "Audrey and Hubert (Givenchy) recognised that they were part of a natural aristocracy, one that had nothing to do with money, power or family placement and everything to do with talent, hard work and a faith that somehow they would prevail. There was an ingrained grace about each of them that money could not buy."

Billy Wilder: "Ah, that unique lady. She's what the Latin calls sui generis. She's the orignal."

John Loring: "Girls all over the world think, 'Wouldn't it be great to be like Audrey Hepburn?' Well, isn't that great? It would be a much nicer world if everyone were just like Audrey Hepburn!"

Sean Hepburn Ferrer (her son): "I think people love her for the right reasons and I think she was deserving of that love."

Jeffrey Banks: "You know the Audrey you saw onscreen? Audrey was like that in real life, only a million times better."

"Audrey, there can never be too many flowers for you."

"I must have an odd face, they can make it up to look wise. I am not." ~Audrey

AUDREY AMBASSADORS:

Vimala Thakar: "We are used to living on the surface, afraid of the depths, and therefore our actions and concerns about humanity are shallow, fragile vessels easily damaged. Ultimately nmost of us are concerned chiefly with our small lives, our collection of sensual pleasures, and our anxiety about sickness and death, rather than the misery created by collective indifference and callousness."

"By your life you do it, by living you do it! It is easy to perceive the truth, it is very difficult to consumnate it in your life. In spirituality there is nothing to acquire, only to understand the truth and live it."

Ma Jaya Sat Bhagavati: "Don't ask why - JUST DO SOMETHING! I have such passion about what can be done! And if we go down, we go down - but we go down trying. We go down knowing we did not waste our live and our life. Put it towards something. I know that if we help one human being, it's going to change the world. It has to. I may not know how, but I know it will. Somebody's going to come back next lifetime full of love because they weren't left to die alone in agony and pain. Make your life a clear expression of a passionate response to the overwhelming pain and suffering you see in the world."

All of the beautiful Audrey illustrations are by Monika Roe - Pamela Keogh used them for her book "What Would Audrey Do?"