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.'

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

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.

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

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

My mother left me for seven years in an orphanage.