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Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

Good hairstylists never die. Vidal Sassoon and Paul Mitchell will always live on.

As well as being a creative genius, Vidal Sassoon was a formative figure of the Sixties. Along with the Pill and the mini-skirt, his influence was truly liberating.

I came to know Gore Vidal in the mid-1980s, when I was living in southern Italy, virtually a neighbour, and our friendship lasted until his death in 2012. Needless to say, he was a complicated and often combative man.

My hair was famous before I was.

When you change something like your hair, the whole world changes also.

When I was a young actor in Vienna, already my hair was falling out at a rapid rate. I went to a doctor, who said hair was like grass: if you mow it, then it grows back stronger. So I went to Brittany, where nobody knew me, and I shaved my head. When it grew back - only the fringes!

I've had some real hair disasters.

I've had every hair style imaginable.

I always have a new haircut.