Top 33 Vidal Sassoon Quotes

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.

My greatest regret is selling my company.

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

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

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.’

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

I’m a great jazz fan.

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.

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

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

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.

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

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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