Audrey

“Again, that’s the element X that people have, or don’t have. You can meet somebody and you can be enchanted, and then you photograph them and it’s nothing. But she had it. And there will not be another. She exists forever, in her time. You cannot duplicate her, or take her out of her era. If the element X could be distilled, you could make all the Monroes you wanted, and all the Hepburns…like that sheep they cloned. But you can’t. And she was something entirely different on the screen than she was in life. Not that she was vulgar; she wasn’t. But she started something new, she started something classy. She and the other Hepburn, Katharine, at a different time. She was absolutely wonderful. Today there is Julia Roberts. She is quite capable, very funny.…I loved her instantly in Pretty Woman. But no actress should be expected to be Audrey Hepburn. That dress by Mr. Givenchy has already been filled.”
—Billy Wilder