"Survival means much, much more than a Band-Aid.  I wouldn't call a good doctor that saves your child from dying a Band-Aid.  You may say that only tiny numbers of people can be helped.  But the numbers are getting bigger.  I go through my soul-searching.  What can I do?  What am I going to go and do there?  But for all of us there's something we ( Read more... )

"I think Beauty is just feeling comfortable in your own skin.  So when do I feel most comfortable?  When I'm around my family, when I'm around my husband, when I'm with my friends, and it really doesn't have anything to do with what I'm wearing, or...  you know I spend most of my life with my hair in a bun, and no makeup and a hoodie on; so thats ( Read more... )

"Why bother?  It's lovely this way.  The idea is, sort of, more romantic.  Because it does mean we're together because we want to be.  Not because now we have to be.  It's a slight difference, but maybe it's a very good one."

-Audrey Hepburn on why her and Robert Wolders never actually married

Okay, so, I am here and now officially promising myself that from now on I am going to be better about letting things go, and choosing to be positive.  I've noticed in the past couple of weeks a serious dwindling in my ability to be optimistic about things...and I've finally come to terms with the reality that there are so many little minute ( Read more... )

"I have decided that I'm going to be more honest...I'm going to start telling people what I want.  Directly.  So, look out world, cause, old Pammy is getting what she wants.  And, don't call me Pammy!"

-Pam Beesly

"There are people who blow their tops, and people who don't.  I am told it is bad to bottle it all up inside you, but then if you blow you have to go around apologizing...I suppose I should just let it come out of my ears."

-Audrey Hepburn

"Never let yourself grow up believing that...anybody is any different from anybody else...we are all the same."

-Audrey Hepburn

"It's going to sound like a thumping bore, but my idea of heaven is [having] Robert and my two sons home- I hate separations- and the dogs, a good movie, a wonderful meal, and great television all coming together.  I'm really blissful when that happens.  [My goal] was not to have huge luxuries.  As a child, I wanted a house with a garden, which I ( Read more... )

"My mother had a secret.

I don't think she would mind my saying it.  We see things much more clearly...after.  So here it is, the great secret.

She was sad."

-Sean Hepburn Ferrer on Audrey Hepburn

"Maybe to my shame I should say I've never taken acting very seriously.  The work was important, yes, but not to me.  I was very involved in my private life.  I came home to a husband, and a child, and marketing."

-Audrey Hepburn