Quotes By Vidal Sassoon

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Mary Quant is my favourite fashion designer.

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.

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.'

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.

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.'

To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.

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.

Hair excited me. As the old ways - backcombing, rollers and rigidity - went out of the window, I started to feel the possibilities in front of my eyes.

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.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

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