Frasi di Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn
Data di nascita: 4. Maggio 1929
Data di morte: 20. Gennaio 1993
Altri nomi: Audrey Hepburnová, Одри Хепберн
Audrey Hepburn è stata un'attrice britannica. Cresciuta tra Belgio, Regno Unito e Paesi Bassi, dove visse sotto il regime nazista, durante la seconda guerra mondiale studiò danza per poi approdare al teatro e infine al cinema.
Nel corso della sua carriera lavorò con Billy Wilder, George Cukor e Blake Edwards, oltre che con attori del calibro di Gregory Peck, Humphrey Bogart, Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Rex Harrison, William Holden e Peter O'Toole e divenne famosa grazie a ruoli come quello di Gigi in uno spettacolo teatrale tratto dall'omonimo romanzo della scrittrice francese Colette , interpretazione che le valse il Theatre World Award per i debutti teatrali, della Principessa Anna in Vacanze romane , interpretazione che le valse l'Oscar come migliore attrice, di Holly Golightly in Colazione da Tiffany e di Eliza Doolittle nel film musicale My Fair Lady . Altri importanti film cui prese parte sono Sabrina , Sciarada e Come rubare un milione di dollari e vivere felici .
Negli anni settanta e ottanta apparve sempre più raramente sul grande schermo, preferendo dedicarsi alla famiglia. Nel 1988 fu nominata ambasciatrice ufficiale dell'UNICEF e, da quel momento fino alla sua morte, si dedicò assiduamente al lavoro umanitario, in riconoscimento del quale ricevette nel 1992 la Medaglia presidenziale della libertà e nel 1993 il Premio umanitario Jean Hersholt .
Vincitrice di un Oscar, di tre Golden Globe, di un Emmy, di un Grammy Award, di quattro BAFTA, di due premi Tony e di tre David di Donatello, la Hepburn fu una delle figure di spicco del cinema statunitense degli anni cinquanta e sessanta. L'American Film Institute ha inserito la Hepburn al terzo posto tra le più grandi star della storia del cinema. e ha una sua stella sullo Hollywood Walk of Fame, al 1652 di Vine Street.
Frasi Audrey Hepburn
„[Sui suoi spettacoli per la resistenza olandese] Il miglior pubblico che io abbia mai avuto non faceva il minimo rumore alla fine del mio spettacolo.“
dall'articolo sul Coronet, gennaio 1955
„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)
Contesto: I am more than ever awed and overwhelmed by the monumental talents it was my great, great privilege to work for and with. There is therefore no way I can thank you for this beautiful award without thanking all of them, because it is they who helped and honed, triggered and taught, pushed and pulled, dressed and photographed — and with endless patience and kindness and gentleness, guided and nurtured a totally unknown, insecure, inexperienced, skinny broad into a marketable commodity. 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. Thank you, Screen Actors Guild and friends, for this huge honor — and for giving me this unique opportunity to express my deepest gratitude and love to all of those who have given me a career that has brought me nothing but happiness.
„I always love it when people write me and say "I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference."“
How to be Lovely (2005)
Contesto: People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say "I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference."
„I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.“
As quoted at UNICEF.org http://www.unicef.org/people/people_audrey_hepburn.html
Contesto: I can testify to what UNICEF means to children, because I was among those who received food and medical relief right after World War II, I have a long-lasting gratitude and trust for what UNICEF does.
„I am more than ever awed and overwhelmed by the monumental talents it was my great, great privilege to work for and with.“
Statement accepting the Screen Actors Guild Achievement Award, read by Julia Roberts, because of Audrey's failing health. (January 1993)
Contesto: I am more than ever awed and overwhelmed by the monumental talents it was my great, great privilege to work for and with. There is therefore no way I can thank you for this beautiful award without thanking all of them, because it is they who helped and honed, triggered and taught, pushed and pulled, dressed and photographed — and with endless patience and kindness and gentleness, guided and nurtured a totally unknown, insecure, inexperienced, skinny broad into a marketable commodity. 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. Thank you, Screen Actors Guild and friends, for this huge honor — and for giving me this unique opportunity to express my deepest gratitude and love to all of those who have given me a career that has brought me nothing but happiness.
„Living is like tearing through a museum.“
As quoted in Audrey Hepburn : A Bio-bibliography (1994) by David Hofstede
Contesto: 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 all in at once.
„Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.“
David Ben Gurion, as quoted in Psychosocial Care of the Dying Patient (1978) by Charles A. Garfield
Misattributed
„Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.“
As quoted in Audrey Hepburn : A Life in Pictures (2007) by Yann-Brice Dherbier and Pierre-Henri Verlhac
„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.“
Origine: How to be Lovely (2005), p. 143
„I myself was born with an enormous need for affection and a terrible need to give it“
As quoted in The New York Times interview 25 Years Later, Honor for Audrey Hepburn (1991) https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/22/movies/25-years-later-honor-for-audrey-hepburn.html
„I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe that loving is the best calorie-burner. I believe in kissing. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls… and I believe in miracles.“
Unidentified ‘member’ of MySpace.com circa 2007–08, quoted in Richard Kennedy The Disgrace of MySpace (self-published [Lulu.com] 23 August 2008, ISBN 9781435760042, page 123. This passage and slight variants of it have been widely attributed to Audrey Hepburn long after her death (for example, in Glamour March 2012, page 78); but no evidence of its existence has been found during Hepburn’s lifetime, attributed to Hepburn or anyone else. It has not been found in print before 2008.
Misattributed
