Hepburn Audrey - Audrey Hepburn: a photographic celebration

Copyright 2012 Hors Collection

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You could believe her as a princess.
W ILLIAM W YLER , DIRECTOR OF R OMAN H OLIDAY (1953)

I can really take no credit for any talent that Audrey may have. If its real talent, its God-given. I might as well as be proud of a blue sky or the paintings in the Flemish exhibition at the Royal Academy.
B ARONESS VON H EEMSTRA , ON THE SUCCESS OF HER DAUGHTER

My mother always used to say, Good things arent supposed to just fall in your lap. God is very generous, but he expects you to do your part first. So you have to make that effort. But at the end of a bad time or a huge effort, Ive always hadhow shall I say it?the prize at the end.
A UDREY H EPBURN

During World War II, Audrey danced in secret performances to raise money for the Dutch Resistance. She eventually had to stop dancing, though, because of malnourishment caused by a diet of mostly endive and tulip bulbs.

This girl, single-handedly, may make bosoms a thing of the past.
D IRECTOR B ILLY W ILDER

Offered the lead in the movie Gigi (1958), Hepburn turned it down to star in Funny Face (1957) instead. Thrilled that she would be putting all those years of dance training to good use, she asked forand gotfamed hoofer Fred Astaire.

Nothing really happened in the book. All we had was this glorious girla perfect part for Audrey Hepburn. What we had to do was devise a story, get a central romantic relationship, and make the hero a red-blooded heterosexual.
G EORGE A XELROD , WHO ADAPTED T RUMAN C APOTE S B REAKFAST AT T IFFANY S (1961) FOR THE SCREEN

I love Albie! Oh, I really do. Hes so terribly, terribly funny. He makes me laugh like no one else can.
A UDREY , ABOUT A LBERT F INNEY , HER COSTAR IN T WO FOR THE R OAD (1967)

I wish there were a half a dozen women like her
F RED Z INNEMANN , DIRECTOR OF T HE N UN S S TORY (1959)

To simulate blindness for her role in Wait until Dark (1967), Audrey wore vision-blocking contact lenses.
She also learned to read Braille.

Dean Martin, Audrey, and poet Carl Sandburg make an unlikely trio at a Friars Club banquet at the Beverly Hills Hotel in the 1960s. In the 1954 Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin comedy Living It Up , Martin did a scene in which he sang a love song to a picture of Hepburn.

One thing is certain. Audrey Hepburn is Natasha.
K ING V IDOR , DIRECTOR OF W AR AND P EACE (1956)

Paris When It Sizzles (1964) , which reunited Audrey with former flame William Holden, was a remake of the 1952 French film La Fte Henriette (Holiday for Henrietta) . The film did not do well. Judith Crist of the New York Herald Tribune dubbed it Hollywoodwhen it fizzles.

Acting doesnt come easy to me. I put a tremendous amount of effort into every morsel that comes out.
A UDREY H EPBURN , 1951

UNICEF appointed Audrey their Goodwill Ambassador in 1987. A facility with languageshe spoke Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Spanishwas a great help with Hepburns work for the international organization.

In the 1952 film Secret People , Audrey plays a ballerina prodigy. Since she had spent many years training for just this profession, she did all of her own dance sequences.