Top 45 Jerry Hall Quotes

Divorce is not the end of the world. It’s worse to stay in an unhealthy marriage. That’s a worse example for the children.

I’m a very lazy, stay-at-home kind of girl.

I enjoy life, and I think that’s important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it’s over in a minute, and you’ve just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.

I’m a bit of a groupie.

Growing up in Texas, mum had five girls to feed on a very limited budget, so we’d end up eating the same thing until it was gone – some weeks it was carrots.

All of the Rolling Stones’ children are my children’s best friends.

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God’s sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

My love of literature goes back to my childhood.

I don’t really want to get married. I’ve got my career, my friends – my life is very, very full. It’s nice to go out to dinner with a man and have fun, but I wouldn’t rush into anything because I don’t think it’s right to bring another man into the house with my four children.

Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.

The idea of getting old is horrific, but I don’t want to make it worse by becoming a grotesque caricature. A lot of people have made that mistake of trying so hard to hang on to their looks that they make themselves look really scary.

When it comes to clothing, I’ve got one really hard and fast rule: never wear beige. That’s such an old-lady colour.

Well, I was fourteen in Texas. But I looked twenty-five.

There’s nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.

It’s ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It’s taking away from young people. There’s a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

The thing I’m most proud of is that I’ve raised a lot of money for certain charities – breast cancer and the Caldecott Foundation and the NSPCC. But as far as my self-esteem is concerned, doing ‘The Graduate’ for 11 months was fantastic.

My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes – really glamorous, beautiful clothes – and I think that’s part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she’d made me all these wonderful clothes to take.

I always polish my shoes and clean the bottom of them before I go out. I also wipe my handbags. I keep them in little bags to stop them getting dusty. You have to keep your accessories looking smart and clean.

My mother taught us the man was the head of the family, but the woman was the neck, and you could turn him any way you like.

I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It’s important at all ages.

I’ve been extremely lucky in that I’ve been a very successful model for a long time. So now I’m an actress and a mother. I’m a theatre rat, which I always wanted to be – I’ve wanted to act since I was 14 – and I never get bored, ever, and I have four beautiful children. I am, in fact, so darn lucky.

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock’n’roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick’s work.

The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, ‘I baked this for you,’ and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.

I was 5′ 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

My mother and my sisters – five girls – were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.

The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don’t realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.

A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don’t care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much – and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.

I always wanted to be an astronaut.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that’s a part of life I don’t worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don’t go mad, and I don’t have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything.

I was successful very quickly. I was on the cover of ‘Vogue’ before I knew it.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

I always talk with models and they always tell me how awful it was growing up being tall and skinny. Then when you’re older, you’re really glad. I think it’s nice to have been through a terrible time and then all of a sudden be so lucky because then you appreciate it.

When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I’m wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.

My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week.

My mother was asked to be a model when she was younger, but my father had not let her, so she was quite keen on me becoming a model. I just went off without telling my dad. I took off to Paris and never came back, but when I became a success and started making money, he was very proud of me.

I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.

We all know pain doesn’t exist without some coexisting depression.

Quantum physics is quite interesting. All these tiny particles are there as much as they’re not there. That to me is very, very interesting. And how our thoughts change the outcome of an experiment, I think that’s all quite spiritual.

To me, it’s not the end of the world if I end up not being with someone. I love romance. I love sex. I love men’s company, but I don’t feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they’re there or not.

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

On my grandmother’s chicken farm, they had cows, and they had this big metal container that the cows drank out of, and we used to swim in it. And we used to get into the chicken feed bins and dive through them.

I think it’s great to grow up in a small town because you’re just dying to break loose.

Texans have in common with Australians, in that they are quite strong, hardy people.