Audrey Hepburn Monologue (Script)

I really wanted to share this will all of you, so here's the final script for my Audrey Hepburn monologue! Video to follow. :)

Audrey Hepburn - Monologue

(Lights up to a dressing room with a rack of costumes, a make-up desk and a divider to change behind. AUDREY is sitting on the one-person couch in a little black dress, cigarette in one hand. Legs crossed or propped up onto the coffee table. She looks up towards the door – up left – because she hears someone enter/knocking.)

(VOICE CUE: We’ll be ready for you in ten, Audrey.)

(AUDREY nods and looks away pensively for another moment before addressing the audience. Cigarette in hand, she waits a moment before speaking.)

AUDREY (leans forward): I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience. I was asked to act when I couldn’t act. I was asked to sing “Funny Face” when I couldn’t sing, and dance with Fred Astaire when I couldn’t dance- and do all kinds of things I wasn’t prepared for. Then I tried like mad to cope with it. I tried always to do better: saw always a little further. I tried to stretch myself. And over the years my relationship with the performance arts grew and has exceeded all my wildest expectations. It has become a huge part of who I am. I can remember when I began taking ballet classes when I was a little girl… (Stands and uses couch as bar and does some plies and ballet moves).

AUDREY: My mother always loved to watch me dance. But my father…

 (She stops and stands completely still, with her hand still rested on the couch. Staring at the floor.)

AUDREY: He disappeared when I was six. Just up and left us one day. Losing that part of my childhood so suddenly, well… It’s hard to try and forget that you were forgotten. It was probably the most traumatic event in my life.

AUDREY: (She regains her composure) But then again, I suppose it was right around the same time that I realised my affinity for the stage, so I was easily distracted from it all. And I turned out alright, I think.

AUDREY: (She moves to the desk and sits up straight. She begins to primp her face) I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine. (Applying blush and obscene amounts of powder) To be quite frank, I think my look is attainable. Women can look like Audrey Hepburn by flipping out their hair, buying the large sunglasses, and the little sleeveless dresses.

(Applies mascara. Uses hand-held mirror. Very exact.)

AUDREY: Perfect. (Stands and walks to the rack of clothes, picking out another little black dress, with a pearl neckline, and black flats) I suppose I’ve always believed that I have none of the attributes usually required for a movie queen, including the shapeliness. I blame the war. (She winks and walks to behind the changing divider to change into her little black dress). But even so, I’ve always thought that there is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness (Throws one shoulder dress over the top of the screen so it hangs. Peak around the corner of the screen to talk directly to the audience). I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples or standing in the rain.

AUDREY: (Back to changing. Slight pause to finish changing.)  And if my world were to cave in tomorrow, (exit the screen and move makeup desk. When she gets to the desk she sits and primps her face more.) I would look back on all the pleasures and excitements I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. My success, Mel – and my darling baby boy, Sean… It will have been enough – all of it. Right down to the very last frame.

AUDREY (To the audience, with tube of lipstick opened in her hands): I just believe in the impossible, even though the way I see it: nothing is impossible. Even the word itself says “I’m possible!”

AUDREY(Applies lipstick): I believe in pink.

AUDREY (Smacks lips together: mwah! She laughs at her silliness and shuts lipstick tube): I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing. Kissing a lot. (Stand) I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls… And I believe that tomorrow is another day full of miracles. And I believe in miracles. I believe that the best thing to hold onto in life is each other. And that the most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – because that’s all that ever matters in the end: happiness. (Picks up glasses off of makeup desk.)

(Pause. She walks UL to exit, and pauses for a short moment. She turns around, looking thoughtful.)

AUDREY: Everything I learned, I learned from the movies. I love movies not just because they are mere entertainment, or because it’s my job to love them. I love movies because they prepare me. They scare me. They move me. They made me. Everything I… (Stops and corrects herself, fidgeting with glasses) Everything we learned, we learned from the movies.

(VOICE CUE (about 3 seconds after AUDREY stops speaking): We’re ready for you on set, Audrey!)

(AUDREY smiles before putting on her glasses and exiting UL)

(BLACKOUT)