79 Quotes by Sean Hepburn Ferrer

It wasn't until I was 14 that I finally saw her films. We found an old 16-millimeter projector in the attic, put up a bedsheet - I ironed it myself - and watched reels that were given to her by Paramount.

I also was deeply touched by 'The Nun's Story' because it was the first time I saw my mother in something other than a romantic comedy.

I remember being mesmerized by 'Love in the Afternoon,' with Gary Cooper.

Her secret to happiness was simple and unpretentious. She had a beautiful house, would pick fruit and make jams, run the dogs in the fields, have a whiskey at five o'clock and cook a great plate of pasta. It wasn't complicated.

My mother often used to speak about her time during the war and during the famous hunger winter in Holland - in the latter part of the war there was no heating and very little food and so her mother used to say, 'You stay in bed most of the day to preserve your calories.'

She performed for the Dutch Resistance, not just to raise money but also to entertain people and to take their minds off the horrors they were living through. They would do plays and little musicals, trying to be discreet and not bring the attention of the soldiers.

My mother always told me, 'I didn't make a perfume or go sell toilet paper. I did something good with my name.'

People say to me, 'What do you think your mother would think about this new world with Instagram?' And I pause and I just say, 'Well, she really was the queen of Instagram because she was more photographed than anyone else.'

It's OK to choose your path, have a dream, not a fake one, and never let it get to your head then.