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“I was born in Switzerland and raised all over Europe, basically.”
“I grew up in the countryside as a normal kid.”
“Because by the time I went to the village school in Switzerland, we're talking about September 1965, she was finishing 'Wait Until Dark' which was released in '66. That's when she gave up being an actress to be a full-time mom - in a farmhouse with fruit trees.”
“She was brave and would try anything. But she was never very confident. She didn't even think she was particularly beautiful - which turned out to be a good thing because it made her act like a real person instead of a sex symbol.”
“But I believe that the huge advances now being made in genetic research will be the key to personalized medicine one day.”
“Only after she had passed away did I fully comprehend to what extent she had truly touched everyone.”
“I also was deeply touched by 'The Nun's Story' because it was the first time I saw my mother in something other than a romantic comedy.”
“My mother always told me, 'I didn't make a perfume or go sell toilet paper. I did something good with my name.'”
“I don't know if my mum and President Kennedy ever dated, but they were friends and there are some letters from him that she kept - sweet and innocent letters saying, 'Saw you in the play the other night and you were fantastic.'”
“I'm often asked what it was like to have a famous mother. I always answer that I really don't know. I knew her first as my mother, and then as my best friend. Only after that did I understand that she was an actress, and with time that she was truly an exceptional actress.”
“Sometimes I will discover a whole shoot of my mother I have never seen before.”
“I have a passion to make something that's good, not merely OK.”
“We all came from a culture of you got to keep moving, you got to keep doing.”
“I think that emotional marks are made early on. Even if you can rationalize them as you grow up, they still leave that dank sadness you can never truly shake.”
“I believe that you can't know courage without conquering fear, and you can't really know joy without knowing sadness.”
“You know, we weren't a Hollywood family. I didn't grow up in a home with screening rooms and my mother didn't behave like a movie star.”
“It's very difficult to have a conversation about yourself when you're the granddaughter of Audrey Hepburn, as it was difficult for me to have a conversation about something without, 'What was she like? What was she really like?'”
“Once in a while, people would say, 'Look, your mom's on TV.' But as a young kid, you don't really worry about those things so much.”
“During her illness we received bags and bags of anything you can imagine, from get well cards to origami from Japan to medications. The mail lady used to come on a little moped - and she had to rent the mail truck from the town next door because she had to lug these bags to our door with thousands of cards we couldn't even open.”
“Her mother was a Christian Scientist who didn't believe in calling doctors. So when my mother caught whooping cough as a baby, stopped breathing and turned blue, her mother revived her by spanking her on the bottom. She saw life itself as a gift and saw her own survival as precious and a matter of chance.”