WWAD Wednesday

Rule #3: Maintain a Sense of Wonder About Your Life and the World

Having survived WWII and then landed in Hollywood, Audrey was lucky as hell, and she knew it. One might ask, did she have any sense of what the impact of Roman Holiday might be when she made it?

"Not at all." said Audrey. "I had no sense, period! I was awfully new and awfully young to be doing my first movie, and thrilled to be doing it. But I was not even aware of the significance of doing a picture with William Wyler - who William Wyler really was...He came to England, looking for an unknown for the picture, which in fact was my only qualification."

On some level, though, she knew that her life was about to change. Audrey's response when she learned of Paramount's decision to cast her as the lead in Roman Holiday was touching in its simplicity: "Lord, help me live up to all of this."

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Modest. Extremely talented. Strong willed. Shy. Beautiful. Disciplined. Hidden. Audrey was all of these things and more. "The test of a first rate intelligence," wrote F. Scott Fitzgerald, "is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." Maybe these conflicting dichotomies are what made Audrey such a compelling personality.

**all information comes from the book: What Would Audrey Do? by Pamela Keogh