Hepburn Quotes

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

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.

The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but its hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.

She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B.

I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself.

When I did that interview with Hepburn, the only ground rule was, you did not discuss Spencer Tracy. Spencer Tracy's widow is still alive, and she respected that.

Nobody can imitate me. You can always see impersonations of Katharine Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe. But not me. Because I've always drawn on myself only.

I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn.

Their offense is shakier than Katherine Hepburn after an all-night espresso bender at Starbucks.

Somehow I was invited to visit with Audrey Hepburn. I had this afternoon with her, and she gave me a couple things. She was so gracious and everything you would think that she would be.

Growing up I wanted to be a mixture of Audrey Hepburn and Lucille Ball. Apparently I told my mum when I was eight that I wanted to be an actor.

Where do I begin? I loved working with Kate Hepburn, which was one of the highlights of my life; Working with Richard Burton in Beckett was another great joy.

I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

Meryl and Katharine Hepburn are probably the two greatest actresses of this and the last century.

We've had Audrey Hepburn, we've had Twiggy, we've had Veruschka, we've had Kate Moss. I'm trying to figure out why I am to blame for skinniness.

Audrey Hepburn's face was made for the camera.

Well you're talking about a long career, a lot of movies, a lot of stars. I guess working with Henry Fonda and Katherine Hepburn was a great privilege.

When the chips are down, you are alone, and loneliness can be terrifying. Fortunately, I've always had a chum I could call. And I love to be alone. It doesn't bother me one bit. I’m my own company.

There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.

Go to the Martin Beck Theatre and watch Katherine Hepburn run the gamut of emotions from A to B.

Ive always been obsessed with Audrey Hepburn.

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.

I love Audrey Hepburn. I thought she was very classy.

Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.

I remember when I did Little Women, I didn't watch the Katharine Hepburn one over and over, which I thought I would do. Heathers, I was completely obsessed with.

I love Audrey Hepburn, early Brooke Shields, and Madonnas eyebrows. I think its beautiful if women look soft and touchable instead of hard, sharp and aggressively groomed.

As a language, Garbo's singularity was of the order of the concept, that of Audrey Hepburn is of the order of the substance; the face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn, an Event.

I long for the old days of Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn, stars who had real glamour and mystique. We only knew so much about their lives; the rest was a mystery.

During Katherine Hepburn's time when she was just coming into her own at 40.

What I'm doing now is having people with and around me to build what other designers built before - like Pierre Balmain with Josephine Baker, Audrey Hepburn, Dalida, Brigitte Bardot.

For every person that says I'm the new Audrey Hepburn, someone else says that I look like an alien.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

The closest to Hepburn is Cate Blanchett.

Put on a trench, you're suddenly Audrey Hepburn walking along the Seine.

I would switch roles with Madonna for a day. Or if Audrey Hepburn was still alive, Audrey Hepburn. I love Audrey Hepburn. She's one of my idols also.

Who is Katharine Hepburn? It took me a long time to create that creature.

It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.

And Kate Hepburn-God, she's beautiful, God, she plays golf well, God, she can get anyone in the world on the phone, God, she knows what to do all the time, God, she wears clothes well.

Audrey Hepburn, as famous as she was, packed her own suitcases... I don’t know why that struck me, but it did. 'She has a servant’s heart,' I thought.

I would really love to sit with Kathryn Hepburn because I find her so interesting.

You ain't no Hepburn and I ain't no Fonda, but if you were drowning in Golden Ponda, mouth to mouth I'd resuscitate you.

Ann Boleyn...a Renaissance Audrey Hepburn in a little black dress.

In a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that God could still create perfection.

Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.

You know Americans...Self-improvement. No matter who or what we are, we're always working on ways to become somebody else.