Jerry Hall Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

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.

A lot of the clothes in the '70s were so boring and so ugly, and then when I see those coming back I think, Oh my God! I can't believe they're doing that again! Those A-line skirts I hate, and those straight three-piece suits, with the lengths a bit too long? Oh, hideous.

A women needs to be a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom.

Actually, Mick and I are quite friendly. We talk regularly and see each other from time to time. He's a good dad.

Also, I'm all for fashion that's interesting. Humor, glamour. I like clothes that have a sense of history, that say something.

And he taught me how to pose. I copied my makeup from his drawings. He introduced me to Helmut Newton, so my whole career has been thanks to Antonio.

And I begin a run of High Society at the Haymarket in August.

And I recently made it into The Guinness Book of World Records for being in six West End plays in one night.

And I'm an editor at Tatler magazine.

Being nude in front of an audience was scary, but I kind of got into it towards the end, after doing it for eleven months.

But I have a lot of friends in fashion as well.

Had I not been busy with my own work, I'd have been on tour with them the whole time. I really loved the music, plus I liked staying in all those fancy hotels.

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.

I appeared in Bus Stop ten years ago, both in America and here in the West End.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I have done a lot of theater.

I have to sing Cole Porter songs.

I have very old-fashioned tastes.

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

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

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

I think about moving back to America one day. I do miss it.

I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character.

I used to hang out with Salvador Dali a lot. He was such a nice man. I really liked his wife Gala, too. People say that she was tricky, but she was never difficult with me.

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

I'd be very interested if there was a woman president.

I'm a bit of a groupie.

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

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

I've always gotten along best with artists.

I've dabbled in several different religions.

Mick Jagger and I just really liked each other a lot. We talked all night. We had the same views on nuclear disarmament.

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

My favorite dancer is Sylvie Guillem.

My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit.

My son James even has a rock'n'roll band - they perform locally in London.

Of course, I'm a big fan of clothes.

One of my best friends is the photographer David Bailey.

One of the things Antonio taught me: to look at it in a graphic way. There's got to be movement across the picture; it's not just about you looking pretty; it's about making a picture that lifts your soul, that somehow says something.

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

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!

There're too many newspapers, there're too many journalists. And they haven't got anything to say. So they're trying to make something big out of fashion, which is a fun thing, let's not forget it.

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

We had a fantastic time with the Kabbalah Centre for about a year. They give very practical advice on day-to-day stuff, like how to be a better parent.

We met through Antonio Lopez, the fashion illustrator, who was brilliant - so ahead of his time and so much fun. I really miss him.

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

Well, I married an Englishman and I've lived in London a long time, but I still feel very Texan - I go home at least once a year.

Well, I started modeling when I was sixteen, so I've seen a lot of fashion.

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

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

When I got divorced, I thought about moving back home. But my kids didn't want to leave - two are still in school.

Trivia

She is a contributing editor for Tatler magazine.

She dated British movie executive George Waud in October 1999.

She was ranked No. 11 in 'The World's Greatest Supermodel' a show on channel 5 in Britain.

She wears a size 10 shoe.

She has two sisters. One is her twin, Terry, who is a real estate broker and her other sister is Cyndy who is an actress.

She has been modelling for over 30 years.