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.
In plain words
Everyone called her a star, but she didn't carry that around in her head. She just did her own thing.
Where these words come from
- 55% sureLots of sources credit Audrey Hepburn with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Attributed; sourced only to How to Be Lovely (Melissa Hellstern, 2005), p. 143 — a posthumous compilation, so held at likely (no lifetime publication located this pass).
- collected in How to Be Lovely: The Audrey Hepburn Way of Life (Melissa Hellstern, 2005), p. 143
- brushing off the idea that she was a living legend of style
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