"I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair." ― Vidal Sassoon Topic(s): Work More From Vidal Sassoon "It was my mother’s idea. Her feeling was that I didn’t have the intelligence to pick a trade myself." "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.’" "I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing." More In Work "The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can’t get work in the movies."― Bette Davis "I only have two things in my life, my family and work. If there’s any time left over, then I play sports."― Mark Zandi "Sometimes what works 40 years ago doesn’t work today."― Joel Osteen