Audrey Hepburn

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Audrey Hepburn (4 May 1929 - 20 January 1993) Belgian-born actress; born Audrey Kathleen Ruston, she became Audrey Hepburn-Ruston when her father appended Hepburn to his surname.

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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.
- Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, read by Julia Roberts, because of Audrey's failing health. (January, 1993)

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

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.

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.

I never thought I'd land in pictures with a face like mine.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

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

If I blow my nose, it gets written all over the world.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

My look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

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

Occasionally, the poem "Time Tested Beauty Tips" by Sam Levenson is wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn. Properly read, it should be "By Sam Levenson Edited by Audrey Hepburn, because the original format of the poem was as a letter to his granddaughter in case he was gone before she grew up. Audrey found the letter and edited lines of it into a poem.

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