Breakfast At Tiffanys Quotes

• I knew damn well I would never be a movie star. It's too hard; and if you are intelligent, it's too embarrassing. My complexes aren't inferior enough: being a movie star and having a big fat ego are supposed to go hand-in-hand; actually, it's essential not to have any ego at all. I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try and get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego, tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

  Holly Golightly

  Morning, Stars, Mean

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• I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule, and someday I'll try to get around to it; but if it happens, I'd like to have my ego tagging along. I want to still be me when I wake up one fine morning and have breakfast at Tiffany's.

  Truman Capote

  Morning, Mean, Ego

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

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• Promise me one thing: don't take me home until I'm drunk - very drunk indeed.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Home, Drunk, Promise

  "Fictional character: Holly Golightly". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", www.imdb.com. 1961.

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• You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.

  Truman Capote

  Running, Baby, Texas

  "Fictional character: Paul 'Fred' Varjak". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961.

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• Happy girls are the prettiest girls.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Happiness, Beauty, Being Strong

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• I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. I'm not sure where that is but I know what it is like. It's like Tiffany's.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Together, Breakfast, Want

  "Fictional character: Holly Golightly". "Breakfast at Tiffany's", 1961.

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  I believe in manicures.
  I believe in overdressing.
  I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Beauty, Believe, Wearing Pink

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• No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Running, Free Spirit

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• If I could find a real life place to make me feel like Tiffany's, then I'd buy some furniture and give the cat a name.

  Holly Golightly

  Real, Cat, Names

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• Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

  Truman Capote

  Sky, Ends, Wild Things

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• You can always tell what kind of a person a man really thinks you are by the earrings he gives you.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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• I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

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• Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a hurt wing. One time it was a full-grown bobcat with a broken leg. But you can’t give your heart to a wild thing; the more you do, the stronger they get. Until they’re strong enough to run into the woods. Or fly into a tree. Then a taller tree. Then the sky. That’s how you’ll end up Mr. Bell. If you let yourself love a wild thing. You’ll end up looking at the sky.

  Truman Capote

  Running, Hurt, Strong

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.74, Vintage

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• Laughing is the best calorie burner.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Being Strong, Strong Women, Believe

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• I don't mean I'd mind being rich and famous. That's very much on my schedule and someday I'll try to get around to it.

  Truman Capote

  Mean, Mind, Trying

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

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• A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

  Truman Capote

  Loneliness, Salt, Hunger

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.28, Vintage

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• Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Motivational, Entrepreneur

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.61, Vintage

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• Certain shades of limelight wreck a girl's complexion.

  Holly Golightly

  Girl, Wrecks, Shade

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• The mean reds are horrible. You're afraid and you sweat like hell, but you don't know what you're afraid of. Except something bad is going to happen, only you don't know what it is.

  Holly Golightly

  Mean, Sweat, Hell

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• I do not accept drinks from disapproving gentlemen.

  Holly Golightly

  Gentleman, Drink, Accepting

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• we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I.

  Truman Capote

  Independent

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.39, Vintage

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• Of course people couldn't help but think I must be a bit of a dyke myself. And of course I am. Everyone is: a bit. So what? That never discouraged a man yet, in fact it seems to goad them on.

  Truman Capote

  Men, Thinking, People

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.22, Vintage

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• I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

  Truman Capote

  Knowing, Forever, Goes On

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• Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that’s why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden.

  Truman Capote

  Inspirational, Action, Easy

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.10, Vintage

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• I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Being Strong, Strong Women

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