Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
In plain words
Success feels like a big birthday, when everyone makes a fuss, but you wake up still exactly yourself.
Where these words come from
- 50% 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 Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures (Dherbier & Verlhac, 2007) — a posthumous compilation, so held at likely (no lifetime publication located this pass).
- collected in Audrey Hepburn: A Life in Pictures (Dherbier & Verlhac, 2007)
- reflecting on what fame had and had not changed
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