Vidal Sassoon Quotes
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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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.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.
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Hairdressing in general hasn't been given the kudos it deserves. It's not recognised by enough people as a worthy craft.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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We learned to put discipline in the haircuts by using actual geometry, actual architectural shapes and bone structure. The cut had to be perfect and layered beautifully, so that when a woman shook it, it just fell back in.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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I was a bit of a rebel.
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Most people have excellent necks. Now they cover them with curtains, which is kind of ridiculous. But there are some beautiful necklines that you can cut into and create wonderful backs, as well as bone structure for the face.
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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.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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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.
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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.'
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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My greatest regret is selling my company.
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I came home after a year and although my profession was only hairdressing, I knew I could change it.
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Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
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I'm a great jazz fan.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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'The Pianist' is a movie I could watch over and over again.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.