Vidal Sassoon Quotes

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Woman, Before, Working

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Work, Human, Another

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

Enough, General, Worthy

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Good, Important, Special

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

Work, Thoughts, Hair

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

Creativity, Sense, Consider

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

Bring out the eyes.
Vidal Sassoon

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

Die, Keep, Secret

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.'
Vidal Sassoon

Good, God, Morning

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Beautiful, Different, Before

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

Sorry, Drunk, Saying

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

Good, Next, Essence

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

Work, Time, Women

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.
Vidal Sassoon

Eyes, Old, Hair

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

Holiday, Ultimate, Italy

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

Money, Mother, Father

Everything about morality and obligations I owe to football.
Vidal Sassoon

Football, Morality, Owe

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

Said, Point, View

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

Change, Home, After

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

Proud, Might, Sit

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

Life, Thinking, Spending

I was a bit of a rebel.
Vidal Sassoon

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

Depression, Beginning, Born

I'm a great jazz fan.
Vidal Sassoon

Great, Jazz, Fan

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Businessman

Born: January 17, 1928

Died: May 9, 2012

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