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**Quotes about audrey**
"In every movie I have ever watched, starting with Roman Holiday, I was in love with Audrey Hepburn.
I played every part. I was Gregory Peck a long time ago! I was Bill Holden, I was Cary Grant, I was her biggest fan." - Ralph
Lauren
"Audrey definitely had a good heart, there was nothing mean or petty - it's a character thing. She
had a good character, so I think people picked up on that too. She didn't have any of the backstabbing, grasping, petty, gossipy
personalities that you see in this business. I liked her a lot; in fact, I loved Audrey. It was easy to love her." - Gregory
Peck
"I think, in retrospect, it was that Audrey was such a lady herself. You knew she wasn't a real princess,
but you still gave her deferential treatment. She had class that the average young American girl never had. And, you know,
she never changed all her life. All the years that I knew her and worked with her. Wherever she was, in Europe or America,
people respected her. I can't think of anybody else that I have worked with that would have such devotion from her friends."
- Bob Willoughby
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"The truth is that the quality Audrey brings to the screen is not dependent on her figure, her face,
her accent (which is neither quite British nor quite foreign) or even her talent. Belgian-born (of a Dutch mother and an Anglo-Irish
father), she has, like all great actresses from Maude Adams to Greta Garbo, the magic ability to bridge the gap between herself
and her audience, and to make her innermost feelings instantly known and shared." - Time Magazine
"'Moon River' was written for her. No one else had ever understood it so completely. There have been
more than a thousand versions of 'Moon River', but hers is inquestionably the greatest." - Henry Mancini
"The first time I saw Audrey Hepburn was in Roman Holiday. There have only been a few firsts in my
life that have rattled me so much - the first time I saw Fred Astaire, the first time I saw Marlon Brando. It was obvious
to me that she was going to join a group into which a few artists are admitted: Chaplin, Astaire, Brando." - Stanley Donen
"A stick-slim actress with huge, limpid eyes and a heart-shaped face. She sparkles and glows with the
fire of a finely cut diamond" - Time Magazine
"After so many drive-in waitresses becoming movie stars, there has been this real drought, when along
come class; somebody who actually went to school, can spell, maybe even plays the piano. She may be a wispy, thin little thing,
but when you see that girl, you know you're really in the presence of something. In that league there's only ever been Garbo,
and the other Hepburn, and maybe Bergman. It's a rare quality, but boy, do you know when you've found it." - Director Billy
Wilder
"She has authentic charm. Most people simply have nice manners" - Director Alfred Lunt
"Audrey makes my soul fly. She opens me up to beautiful feelings" - Director Stanley Donen |
*** Quotes from Audrey***
"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
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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."
* (This last quote was her last public statement, upon receiving the Screen Actors Guild Achievement
Award in January, 1993. She was not able to present this speech in person, due to her failing health. Julia Roberts delivered
this speech on her behalf at the awards presentation.)
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"I'm not a born actress, as such, I care about expressing feelings."
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"I never understood what makes me so special...that was a job, not reality."
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"...it's like when somebody gives you something to wear that's too big, and you have to grow into
it...my one ambition is to be an actress." (Accepting the 1953 Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday)
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"Considering that you have no talent, it's really extraordinary where you've gotten." (Audrey's mother,
Ella Van Heemstra)
"She said it in the middle of the lovely successes I was having. She wasn't putting
me down. She was saying how fortunate I was. Oh, I think she was right. I don't have this huge talent. I landed in this business
because I had to earn a living." (in response to previous quote)
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"I was lost without my mother. She had been my sounding board, my conscience. She was not the most
affectionate person - in fact there were times when I thought she was cold - but she loved me in her heart, and I knew that
all along. I never got that feeling from my father, unfortunately."
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"I remember the first time we met: he was wearing a yellow shirt, grey flannels, a red scarf knotted
around his waist instead of a belt, and the famous feet were clad in soft moccasins and pink socks. He was also wearing that
irrepressible smile. One look at this most debonair, elegant and distinguished of legends and I could feel myself turn into
solid lead, while my heart sank into my two left feet. Then suddenly I felt a hand around my waist and, with his inimitable
grace and lightness, Fred literally swept me off my feet. I experienced the thrill that all women at some point in their lives
have dreamed of-to dance, just once, with Fred Astaire."
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"All my life I dream of dancing with Fred Astaire and what do I get? Caked in mud."
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"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."
_________________________________________________
"I am more than ever awed and overwhelmed by the monumental talents it was my great, great privelege
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 gentlenss, guided and nurtured a totally unknown, insecure, inexperienced, skinny broad into a marketable
commodity."
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