Jerry Hall

Model

1956-07-02

Quotes by Jerry Hall

• We used to go to Studio 54 - an amazing place.

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• I think crying over spilt milk and being all moody and sulky is really bratty behavior. You shouldn't do it, because it's going to drag you and everyone else around you down.

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

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• When I was young, I was a sucker for smooth men. Bryan Ferry hired me, at 19, to be painted blue and dress up as a mermaid for the cover of his album 'Siren.' It was love at first sight.

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

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• I'd always enjoyed acting, but modeling was so time-consuming - and lucrative - that I didn't pursue it.

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• I guess I've always been a groupie. My first date was a bull rider called Tommy Lee Bryant. We'd go to the rodeo every Saturday and Sunday. The bull riders were the cool guys.

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• My long, blonde hair has been my trademark ever since I started modelling in the Seventies, when I was scouted sunbathing in St Tropez.

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• Yves Saint Laurent was my first fashion show. I wore his tuxedo. And Helmut Newton was my first photographer, in 1973. I was really very lucky. I had an amazing career.

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

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• 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.

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

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• It's better not to wear too much jewellery - just a couple of nice things, nothing too rattly - and stick to kitten heels or flats. Women let themselves down with tall heels. I think they're kind of vulgar. I see women sinking into grass at outdoor parties or tiptoeing over gravel at weddings. It's silly. You need to be practical.

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• 'Wild Horses' is my favourite Stones song. It's so beautiful. I don't mind that it was written for Bianca.

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• The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

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• I love yoga... I also see an Ayurvedic doctor, which is an ancient Indian thing. I go and see the doctor to balance my system twice a year; it's preventative. They take my pulse, give me some herbs, and tell me what I should eat and what I should avoid. They rub oil on me too, it's so lovely. It's like a detox.

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• Earlier this year I had my hair feng-shuied.

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• The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind.

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