Quotes By Vidal Sassoon

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

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.

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.

I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy, and endeavoring to make our fellow-creatures happy.

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.

If you have a sense of style and purpose and will you don't want to compromise.

Realizing our society as it is, without theology dogmatically telling us how we should react to it, and being humane toward that society, that is all that we're sure of.

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

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

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.

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

I'm a great jazz fan.

From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.

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

I was a bit of a rebel.

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

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.

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

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

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.

The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?

For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.

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

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

I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.

You either create something and you keep it a secret and you die with it, or you can benefit the craft.

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.

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

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.'