Vidal Sassoon Quotes - Page 2

It's not recognized by enough people as a worthy craft.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.

I'll never forget one morning I walked in and I had a hell of a bruise - it had been a difficult night the night before - and a client said to me, 'Good God, Vidal, what happened to your face?' And I said, 'Oh, nothing, madam, I just fell over a hairpin.'

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

It's hard to give advice. There are so many people, how do you give major advice to a group of people, it's very presumptuous.

Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.

So I was shampooing at 14. But I've always thought that had I the opportunity for an education, I would have been an architect. There's no question about it.

I was a bit of a rebel.

If you don't look good, we don't look good.

I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.

You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.

I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she'd come in and we'd cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who'd never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

It's okay saying sorry, but when you are drunk you say what you really feel.

I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

When I was about 10 I ran away to see my father. He couldn't have cared less. He just took me back as soon as he could.

Judaism is important to me from a tribal point of view.

My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.

'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.