Friday quotes - Stevie Nicks

"If you think you know the truth about this band, you can think again.  Other than the people involved, nobody knows what really went on.
One day, when I'm an old lady, I'm going to tell the whole tale and people will be amazed.  The truth will blow your mind.

The story is deep, dark and heavy.  But it's also beautiful, sexy and more romantic than you could ever imagine.  Now's not the time,

Time for an economy drive and a few quotes as it's Friday

"My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income"
Errol Flynn(1909-1959)
Me too Errol, I've always been appalling with money.  I absolutely have to cut down on spending because I love the freedom I have in my life now.  God forbid I have to get a "proper" job.  I'm not motivated by money and never have been.  I can never understand how I manage to spend so much.

This

Friday quotes - Brigitte Bardot

"I've been very happy, very rich,very beautiful, much adulated,very famous and very unhappy"
Brigitte Bardot(b. 1934)

French actress, model, singer and international sex symbol Brigitte Bardot was one of the most beautiful and iconic women in the world.

At eighteen she married film director Roger Vadim and four years later caused a scandal when he cast her in And God Created Woman.  

Friday quotes - Elizabeth Taylor

Photography by Richard Avedon

"It's not the having, it's the getting"
Elizabeth Taylor(b. 1932)
Legendary Hollywood star Elizabeth Taylor was once voted The Most Beautiful Woman in the World.  Married eight times to seven husbands, most famously Richard Burton who she married twice.  She needs no introduction.  Here are some of my favourite quotes.

"Everything was handed to me - looks, fame,

Friday quotes - Salvador Dali

"At the age of six I wanted to be a cook.At seven I wanted to be Napoleon.My ambition has been growing steadily ever since"
Salvador Dali(1904-1989)
I was as thinking of doing a fashion designer for this Friday's quotes but I always go with whatever pops into my head first.  The Actor are going back to Catalonia in the summer and I've been looking at pictures of when we were last in Cadaques

Friday quotes - Vivienne Westwood

"You have a much better life if you wear impressive clothes"
Vivienne Westwood(b. 1941)
Vivienne Westwood is one our greatest fashion designers.  She is famous for bringing punk and new wave to the mainstream.
With her ex-husband Malcolm McLaren she owned the influential Kings Road clothing shop, variously named SEX, Seditionaires, Let It Rock, Too Fast to Live, Too Young to Die and World's

Friday quotes - Mick Jagger

Photography by David Bailey
"God gave me everything"
Mick Jagger
(b. 1943)

Mick Jagger needs no introduction, one of the most influential frontmen in the history of rock 'n' roll.  The lead singer of the Rolling Stones is a music legend.  And wasn't he gorgeous?!  Here are some of his quotes.

"I came into music just because I wanted the bread.It's true. I looked around and this seemed like

Friday quotes - Ava Gardner

"What I'd really like to say about stardomis that it gave me everything I never wanted"
Ava Gardner(1922-1990)
Ava Gardner in my opinion was the most beautiful of all the Hollywood stars.  Intelligent, feisty, hard drinking and one of the boys she was a force to be reckoned with.  Married three times to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and most famously to Frank Sinatra, she had high profile

Friday quotes - Marlene Dietrich

"I dress for the image.Not for myself, not for the public,not for fashion, not for men"
Marlene Dietrich(1901-1992)
Hollywood legend Marlene Dietrich was born in Germany in 1901.  During the 1920's she acted in silent films in Berlin before her role in The Blue Angel brought her international fame and a Hollywood contract with Paramount.  Marketed as Germany's answer to Greta Garbo she became

Friday quotes - Joan Crawford

Photography by George Hurrell
"If I can't be me, I don't want to be anybody"
Joan Crawford(1905-1977)
I've long been a fan of Joan Crawford and she was a woman who took her career as a Hollywood star very seriously.  I loved her films and the amazing costumes, many of whom were designed by Adrian, which soon turned her into fashion icon.
Joan Crawford was born in in 1905, although the date can

Friday quotes - Frida Kahlo

"I don't paint dreams or nightmares.I paint my own reality"
Frida Kahlo(1907-1954)
I am a great admirer of Frida Kahlo and her work and have always wanted to do a post on her.  There has been so much written about Frida there is no point me writing something from scratch so I have incorporated sections of text found on www.fridakahlo.com and www.fridakahlofans.com to accompany the quotes and

Friday quotes - Marilyn Monroe

Photography by Richard Avedon
"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kissand fifty cents for your soul" 
Marilyn Monroe(1926-1962)
Marilyn Monroe was the ultimate Hollywood starlet and legend.  Probably the most instantly recognisable female icon in the world.
I wonder what she'd have been like had she lived?  I like to there's something special about a star who

Friday quotes - Tallulah Bankhead

"Nobody can be exactly like me.Sometimes even I have trouble doing it"
Tallulah Bankhead(1902-1968)
I read Tallulah Bankhead's autobiography when I was ten.  I loved her dry sense of humour and strong character.  She was a very talented actress, personality, bon vivant and later talk show host.
Tallulah famously lived at the Algonquin Hotel in New York, in Hollywood and London.  Her parties

Friday quotes - Diana Vreeland

"You gotta have style.  It helps you get up in the morning.  It's a way of life.  Without it you're nobody.  And I'm not talking about a lot of clothes"
Diana Vreeland(1903 -1989)
Diana Vreeland was the most influential magazine editor of the last century. Working as fashion editor at Harper's Bazaar and Editor-in-Chief of American Vogue, she was described as "The century's most formidable

Friday quotes - Cher

"A girl can wait for the right man to come along, but in the meantime it doesn't mean she can't have a wonderful time with all the wrong ones"
Cher(b. 1946)
I love these vintage pictures of Cher.  I think she's an amazing, strong woman.  Cher's been around for so long, she's like an institution.  I also think she's a very good actress and I've really enjoyed her films particularly Moonstruck,

Friday quotes - Hedy Lamarr

"I have not been that wise.  Health I took for granted.  Love I have demanded, perhaps too much and too often.  As for money, I have only realised it's true worth when I didn't have it"
Hedy Lamarr(1913-2000)
Hedy Lamarr was one of Hollywood's most beautiful women.  A star that possessed great beauty and brains,  she invented frequency hopping which has gone to to allow wireless communication

Friday quotes - Katharine Hepburn

"If you obey all the rules you
miss all the fun"
Katharine Hepburn(1907-2003)
I've always adored Katharine Hepburn, she's strong, intelligent, witty and beautiful.  What more could you want in a woman?  Oh, and I love her wardrobe.  Here are some of my favourite quotes from the wonderful Ms Hepburn.

"When I started out I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act.  I just

Friday quotes - Zsa Zsa Gabor

"How many husbands have I had?  You mean apart from my own?"
Zsa Zsa Gabor(b. 1917)
Zsa Zsa Gabor has some great one-liners.  Married ten times Zsa Zsa obviously has an appreciation for men.  She also loves diamonds, furs and it seems poodles, Yorkshire terriers and Persian cats.  She has that cartoon-like style of Hollywood glamour and a life of excess that never fails to amuse me. They don't

Friday quotes - Joan Collins

"The problem with beauty is that
it's like being born rich and getting poorer"
Joan Collins(b. 1933)
I've always been a huge fan of Joan Collins, she's a British institution.  Joan looks amazing, she's funny and she has balls.  I think she's fabulous.  When her first book came out I bought it immediately - who wouldn't want to know Joan's tips for looking good?

One of my dream nights out

Friday quotes - Keith Richards

"Everyone talks about the rock these days;the problem is they forget about the roll"
Keith Richards(b. 1943)
As Keith's long awaited autobiography is out on Monday I thought today's quotes and pictures should be the fantastic Mr Richards.  I know the book has been serialised in some of the papers.  I'm very particular, I will never start watching a film halfway through so I don't want to read