Audrey Hepburn

"Paris is always a good idea."

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

"Nothing ages like beauty."

"If you ever fall off the Empire State Building and down through the air, don't try to use the United Nations building to break your fall."

"Breakfast at Tiffany's represents a different era, a different world."

"I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it."

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

"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."

"Sometimes I think I was never made for the big screen. I belong in the theater."

"Elegance is not being noticed; it's being remembered."

"The question isn't who is going to let me. It's who is going to stop me."

"I believe in maturing and growing up, but I don't believe in aging."

"Laughter is possible at the worst of times."

"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."

"Everyone has an idea that they think would be a great movie, to capitalize on famous war stories, historic scenes and real heroic subjects based on a true story."

"I'm not sophisticated. I'm just a girl from Belgium."

"The most precious possession that will ever come to you in this world is a human heart that loves you."

"I could do a chocolate bar ad if it would help put bread on the table, but I wouldn't be comfortable doing a commercial for a telephone company that I wouldn't personally use."

"Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people."

"Being privileged to be an actor, I long to be an actress."

"I was born in Brussels, and I did have, when I was young, a little bit of French spoken, but I was born in Brussels."

"Tiara is more a sign of a character in a story, a fairytale, so I was thinking this comes as a tiara."

"I would like to be remembered as someone who cared."

"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."

"You can't possibly be first at everything, so you might as well try to be unique."

"The truth must reside in every human heart. Are you moving closer to it?"

"I'm more interested in what I can do for my country than in what my country can do for me."

"Dancing is like breathing to me."

"I love watching old films and old musicals when I'm not working."

"I looked at my hands and realized they are tools I need to use."