“If there was anything going on, it didn’t last long because most of our time was taken up with work. It’s true that I had an enormous crush on him. But I was engaged at the time and I even had my wedding gown hanging in the wardrobe of my Roman hotel room. And Greg was married to Greta. I knew he wasn’t happy, that his marriage was not good even though they had three lovely children. Maybe he did feel something for me, maybe there was a little chemistry between us that made our scenes work. I was in Rome, being treated like a princess, and it was not difficult for me to believe I was the princess in the film, and it was not difficult for me to believe I was in love with Gregory Peck. You have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you’re going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can’t do it other way”
- Audrey Hepburn’s response to rumors of aromantic attachment to her Roman Holiday leading man Gregory Peck
Audrey Hepburn is photographed by Mark Shaw as she reads her lines on the way to the set of Sabrina, 1953
