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I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles

Q: Did Audrey Hepburn say "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles"?

No. Audrey Hepburn died in 1993, yet this "I believe in…" passage cannot be found anywhere in print or interview during her lifetime. Per Wikiquote's Misattributed section, it traces to an unidentified MySpace user around 2007–08 and was first printed in 2008. The wording is a modern feel-good chain post, not anything Hepburn wrote or said.

Not Audrey Hepburn — an anonymous MySpace-era post Unknown (anonymous online author, c. 2007–08) First documented online c. 2007–08 · first in print 2008

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Audrey Hepburn died in 1993, yet this “I believe in…” passage cannot be found anywhere in print or interview during her lifetime. Per Wikiquote’s Misattributed section ↗, it traces to an unidentified MySpace user around 2007–08 and was first printed in 2008. The wording is a modern feel-good chain post, not anything Hepburn wrote or said.

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“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles” Misattributed to Audrey Hepburn — actually an anonymous MySpace-era post, first in print 2008 (per Wikiquote). Researched at Quotle.info

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Evoking the world of Audrey Hepburn — Actress & humanitarian. Theme: "I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles". Atmospheric and restrained, cinematic directional light, a muted period-appropriate palette, fine grain and texture. Compose with generous empty space for the quote and a small credit line. No lettering in the image itself.

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Provenance

The trail leads to MySpace, not Audrey Hepburn

Credited to: Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993)
Actual origin: Anonymous MySpace-era “I believe in…” post
Earliest in print: 2008 — Richard Kennedy, The Disgrace of MySpace (self-published, Lulu.com, 23 Aug 2008)
Verdict: Misattributed / fabricated

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

The passage circulates in several drifting variants (some open with “I believe in manicures… overdressing… lipstick”), a classic sign of an anonymous copy-and-paste chain post rather than a fixed authored text.

Wikiquote: Audrey Hepburn (Misattributed)

How we verified this

Wikiquote ↗ files this under Misattributed: “no evidence of its existence has been found during Hepburn’s lifetime” and “it has not been found in print before 2008.”
Wikiquote traces the earliest form to an unidentified MySpace user, c. 2007–08, quoted in Richard Kennedy’s self-published The Disgrace of MySpace (Lulu.com, 23 Aug 2008).
Quote aggregators like Goodreads ↗ reproduce the exact popular wording under Hepburn’s name, but flag that community quotes are “not verified.”
The anachronistic register — “best calorie burner,” “happy girls are the prettiest girls” — reads as late-2000s social-media inspiration, not the voice of a woman born in 1929.

The exact wording has no identifiable author — it is an anonymous, mutating internet passage first recorded in 2008. With no known author or first-authored publication, no copyright status can be responsibly asserted; it is not a documented Audrey Hepburn text.

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How a MySpace post became an Audrey Hepburn quote

This is one of the internet’s cleanest examples of a quote grafted onto a beloved name. The text is real; the attribution is not.

Audrey Hepburn Misattributed

Wikiquote ↗ places it under Misattributed, noting no trace of it during Hepburn’s lifetime and nothing in print before 2008 — 15 years after she died in 1993.

An anonymous MySpace user (c. 2007–08) Actual origin

The earliest known form comes from an unidentified MySpace member, quoted in Richard Kennedy’s self-published The Disgrace of MySpace (Lulu.com, 2008), per Wikiquote ↗.

The honest answer: nobody has ever produced a source showing Audrey Hepburn said or wrote this — it is an anonymous late-2000s chain post, first printed in 2008, per Wikiquote ↗.

Context

Why it sticks to her

Audrey Hepburn accumulates feel-good quotes the way flypaper catches flies. Her image — poised, kind, effortlessly stylish — makes any gentle, girlish credo feel plausible in her voice, so text with no author drifts toward her name and stays there.

The passage itself betrays its era: “best calorie burner” and “happy girls are the prettiest girls” are the cadence of 2000s social-media inspiration, not the mid-century world of a woman born in 1929. Once printed under her name, quote sites copied it from one another until the attribution looked settled.

The text is real. The name attached to it is not.

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Audrey Hepburn

1929–1993 · Actress & humanitarian

Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993) was the Belgian-born British actress of Roman Holiday, Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and later a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. Elegant, self-deprecating and privately reserved, she left interviews and a handful of favourite verses — but not this passage. It was attached to her name years after her death because a graceful, feminine feel-good text needed a graceful, feminine face.

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Origin

Earliest documented in Richard Kennedy, The Disgrace of MySpace (Morrisville, NC: Lulu.com, 23 August 2008); attributed to an unidentified MySpace user, c. 2007–08. Per Wikiquote, “Audrey Hepburn: Misattributed.”

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Quotle.info. “Who really said ‘I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles’?” Last verified 8 Jul 2026. https://quotle.info/who-said/i-believe-in-pink-i-believe-that-laughing-is-the-best