Image of Audrey Hepburn

"I sat and let her talk, mesmerized by that exquisite little-girl face, those hypnotic eyes, exquisite gamin face, the most expressive dancer’s hands since Renée Jeanmaire’s, that smile like a rainbow after a summer shower. I thought: I should be more blasé about meeting actresses—after all, I do see and talk to so many of them on my rounds of the studios and the Sunset Strip salons!—and yet here I sit staring like a hick from Hicksville, and straining to hear every word Audrey utters in that throaty, highly mannered half-Dutch, half-English voice, afraid to miss even a fleeting expression in those constantly moving, uptilted eyes.
She’s 24 years old. Sometimes her eyes are brown and sometimes they’re green. On this particular smoggy morning in Hollywood, she wore only a splash of lipstick and no other make-up, a man’s checked shirt, a full, black skirt and ballet slippers. And she smoked Gold Flake Cigarettes—that’s an English brand—in a long filter cigarette holder. She wore the shirt very interestingly: it wasn’t buttoned at all but the two front shirttails were gathered together, wrapped around her waist Mexican-style and safety-pinned in the rear. “Shirts are so useful,” she explained. “All you do is wash and iron them.”
“You wash and iron them yourself?” “Myself.”
She also wore Italian loop earrings and her hair was cut very short, even shorter than it was after the actor who played the hairdresser in Roman Holiday had finished chopping it off so recklessly! To get back to her physical attributes, her face is the most enchanting part of this sophisticated imp known as Audrey Hepburn. It’s oval and high-cheekboned. It’s angular and yet it’s soft."

-Audrey Hepburn, Photoplay magazine, January 1954