Audrey Quote by Roland Barthes

The face of Garbo is an Idea, that of Hepburn an Event.

— Ethel Barrymore

There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!

— Henri Langlois

Garbo still belongs to that moment in cinema when capturing the human face still plunged audiences into the deepest ecstasy, when one literally lost…

— Greta Garbo

This singularity of meaning--I was my face, I was ugliness--though sometimes unbearable, also offered a possible point of escape. It became the launching pad…

— Lucy Grealy

A simple garb is the proper costume of the vulgar; it is cut for them, and exactly suits their measure, but it is an…

— Jean de la Bruyere

There was very little about her face and figure that was in any way remarkable, but it was the sort of face which, when…

— Susanna Clarke

The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.

— Haruki Murakami

“The truth was that, with the Duchess de Luxembourg, with Mme de Morienval, Mme de Saint-Euverte and any number of others, the features that…

— Marcel Proust

The old-fashioned idea that the simple piling up of experiences, one on top of another, can make you an artist, is, of course, so…

— Helen Hayes

The imprint of Miss Hepburn is absolutely, totally present. Like it or not, she will be the most important look of the twentieth century.

— Manolo Blahnik

The default mode of modern writing about art is to despise any notion of singularity as so much overheated genius-fetishism.

— Simon Schama

Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would…

— Kurt Vonnegut