Quotes By Vidal Sassoon

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.'

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.'

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.

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.

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Bring out the eyes.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.