Quotes By Vidal Sassoon

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

I'm a great jazz fan.

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.

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

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.

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

I was a bit of a rebel.

It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

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

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.

If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

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.

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.