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.

The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.

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.

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

Beauty is.. The passionate and positive expression of the complete self.

I think that as good architecture enhances a city, a good cut enhances the definition and expression of a face.

To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art.

If you look good, we look good.

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous.

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.

Pride is all very well, but a sausage is a sausage.

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.

Marriage should be viewed as an institution ordained by God and should be out of the control of the state.

I don't believe in luck, I believe in preparation.

When you get so that you can't see, you come to it gradually. And if you didn't come by it gradually, I guess you'd just kill yourself when you couldn't see.

I grew up in the kitchen, mostly with my grandfather, my mother and my aunt Raffy.

To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right.

As an actress we don't beat one another. It's whoever's right for the part.

Friends should have all things in common.

The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots.