Jerry Hall Quotes

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.

I always wanted to have a family - that was one of my big wishes. And in school, I'd taken drama, and I'd always wanted to act. I did go to drama school in New York, Los Angeles and London, and I did small parts here and there, but I never really had the time. Modeling was always paying more.

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.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

My hair can get quite dry, so I condition it in olive oil once a week.

All of the Rolling Stones' children are my children's best friends.

I was 5' 10 when I was 14, skinny and flat, with huge feet, and I never had a boyfriend.

I've always gotten along best with artists.

The problem with cosmetic surgery is that people who have it can only see how they look in the mirror. They don't realise how weird they look from other angles. I particularly hate the injections that puff out the face, which are hideous.

I am wondering when - if - I have to cut my hair. I think it looks terrible if you have really long hair and it's gone gray. So I am experimenting with wearing it up. Up, with pearls. I think that's quite a good look.

I am very friendly with lots of people in rock'n'roll, because I spent so much time with them over the years through Mick's work.

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

Day to day, I love eating soup and salad; lots of stews, fish, chicken, meat and veg. I eat everything, and I don't have any fads.

So few people read poetry. That's sad, isn't it?

When it comes to jewellery, less is more as you get older. Just before I go out to a party, I look at myself in the mirror and take off half of the jewellery I'm wearing. Anything that rattles or clanks is just too dowager duchess.

I love good rock'n'roll, blues and jazz, gospel, and a little reggae.

Acting and modelling are good, but motherhood is what it's all about.

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

Beauty makes life easier. People want to do things for you. They want to marry you and pay for everything.

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

When it comes to clothing, I've got one really hard and fast rule: never wear beige. That's such an old-lady colour.

Being a parent has been such a wonderful privilege for me. My kids make me laugh and cry, but there are definitely more laughs. They really do give my life meaning.

Growing up in Texas, mum had five girls to feed on a very limited budget, so we'd end up eating the same thing until it was gone - some weeks it was carrots.

A healthy love life is not and should not be the preserve of those in their 20s and 30s. It's important at all ages.

When I was 16 and arrived in France, I discovered chocolate mousse. I was crazy about the bread, too. Every morning, I'd go to the bakery and get a fresh croissant. It made me feel very sophisticated.

Cosmetic surgery is terrifying. It never looks good. Those women look weird. They look in the mirror and think they look great, but they don't see what we see. I think it's hideous. They scare small children.

I really am glad that the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children has had the courage to stand up and say that children should not be hit under any circumstances. I am a committed supporter of this campaigning charity for children.

You can burn a lot of calories mopping the house.

I love my kids and would rather be with them than anyone in the whole wide world.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

When I started out modelling, people kept warning me that I would only last five years.

All this size 0! A bit ridiculous. There's something creepy about fashion shows. The models look like they're going to be tortured. They do this strange pony walk; their heels are so high, they can hardly walk. Creepy!

Quantum physics is quite interesting. All these tiny particles are there as much as they're not there. That to me is very, very interesting. And how our thoughts change the outcome of an experiment, I think that's all quite spiritual.

I don't really want to get married. I've got my career, my friends - my life is very, very full. It's nice to go out to dinner with a man and have fun, but I wouldn't rush into anything because I don't think it's right to bring another man into the house with my four children.

I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.

Fashion is fun, but it's not that important, really, is it? It's important to have other intellectual and creative interests.

I use a lot of natural products, I get facials, and I drink a lot of detox tea.

My face and body have been a tool for my career, and I'm very conscious of that aspect and try and keep it the best I can.

We all know pain doesn't exist without some coexisting depression.

As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don't go mad, and I don't have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything.

On my grandmother's chicken farm, they had cows, and they had this big metal container that the cows drank out of, and we used to swim in it. And we used to get into the chicken feed bins and dive through them.

Jealousy is the fear of losing the thing you love most. It's very normal. Suspicion is the thing that's abnormal.

People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.

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.

People feel like they know you because they've read about you, and people who don't know me seem to have warm feelings about me. I seem to be popular with women. I go into the loo in restaurants, and they all say, 'Oh, I love you.' It's odd, but it's really nice, too.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

There is nothing more humiliating than loving someone so much that you forgive the infidelities.

If experience has taught me anything, it's to make every day as good as possible. You learn that with age, as it goes by so quick.

Then, in 2000, John Reid, Elton John's former manager, asked me to audition for the stage version of The Graduate he was producing. So I worked on it, got the part, and after three weeks' rehearsal I was on stage!

It's ridiculous to imagine you can stay young forever and live forever. It's taking away from young people. There's a beauty and respect in age. Magazines and media are disrespectful of age.

I have a lot of energy, and if I don't keep myself busy, I go crazy. I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary! My house loves it when I'm working so the linen cupboard can get a rest. I just don't sit around.

I was successful very quickly. I was on the cover of 'Vogue' before I knew it.

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

There's nothing like taking Proust to the beach and daydreaming along to it.

Since I got a divorce, I have been dating younger guys. But it's just because they're the ones that ask me out.

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

I am 58. That is pretty old, for God's sake. I look pretty good for my age, and I am enjoying that.

When I was 17, I was at La Coupole brasserie, and Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir asked me to join them at their table. They were fascinated that I'd watched their programme on existentialism back home and wanted to understand nothingness and being.

I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's over in a minute, and you've just got to grab it and do everything and not worry about it.

I studied drama in high school, and when I was 18, I studied at the Actors Studio in New York. Then I moved to London when I got engaged to Bryan Ferry, and I studied at the National Theatre there.

Earlier this year I had my hair feng-shuied.

I'm single. I'm independent. And I'm dating. I think if you're honest that you're dating, there's nothing wrong with that.

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.

Why would anybody lie? The truth is always more colourful.

I don't mind being older. I'm proud of my age. I've achieved a lot. It's the same thing with Mick and the Stones. They should be revered and respected. Isn't it strange that now we're living longer we have so much less respect for old age? Perhaps it's a less valuable commodity?

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

You don't want to wear any styles that are too young ... I try to still dress glamorously, but not like my daughters.

Well, I think mostly we're dressing for men.

A lot happens at 50, the best thing being that you just don't care anymore. At 40, you still care. At 30, you care way too much - and your twenties are quite frankly a nightmare. Bring on 60, I say: just imagine the joy of having grandchildren.

My mother was a medical records librarian and wonderful with us girls. She sewed a lot of our clothes - really glamorous, beautiful clothes - and I think that's part of why I was so successful when I went off to Paris; she'd made me all these wonderful clothes to take.

My mother taught us the man was the head of the family, but the woman was the neck, and you could turn him any way you like.

I love doing theater so much - being in front of an audience and seeing how a character grows and develops with every performance.

The great thing about baking is that you can bring in an apple pie when you have company and say, 'I baked this for you,' and people love it. Men love it when you bake a pie for them.

I like the odd glass of wine, a coffee and a cigarette. As you get older you can't see the wrinkles

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

It's really important for children to have good morals and good manners, and that they're thoughtful of other people and that they learn the consequences of their actions.

Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.

I always polish my shoes and clean the bottom of them before I go out. I also wipe my handbags. I keep them in little bags to stop them getting dusty. You have to keep your accessories looking smart and clean.

I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.

My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

There's a kind of telepathy that goes on with the photographer and model.

There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.

My first airplane trip was to Paris. I had this fantasy that I would become a model, and I did!

Of course, it's no fun getting old and getting sick and dying; we all know that's coming, and it's a bore.