“Everyone thought it was hilarious. Look how crazy she is! Even my parents acted embarrassed by me. But nobody seemed to understand that I was simply out of my mind with grief. My children had been taken away from me. With my head shaved, everyone was scared of me, even my mom. No one would talk to me anymore because I was I was too ugly. My long hair was a big part of what people liked – I knew that. I knew a lot of guys thought long hair was hot… shaving my head was a way of saying to the world: Fuck you. You want me to be pretty for you? Fuck you. You want me to be good for you? Fuck you. You want me to be your dream girl? Fuck you.” GriefBeautyHairRebellionShaved Head Book:The Woman in Me Source: The Woman in Me
“I did a film a long time ago with a shaved head and I had the ugliest looking head in the world.” WorldLongFilmLong TimeLong Time AgoShaved Head Author:Gedde Watanabe
“I'm very different to my mum. I'm not as beautiful as she is, nor - she probably despairs about this - as groomed. I certainly rebelled against her idea of looking well turned-out. I spent several years with a shaved head in jeans and baggy shirts.” YearsWellsIdeasDifferentBeautifulDespairShirtsMumJeansShaved Head Author:Natascha McElhone
“Buddhism isn't about temples, and incense, and shaved heads, and robes. It's not about church. There are aspects of Buddhism that involve that. People enjoy that, it helps them, it strengthens their practice.” PeopleHelpingEnjoyChurchPracticeBuddhismAspectBuddhistTemplesCosmologyRobesIncenseShaved Head Author:Frederick Lenz
“For me, a male image that I'm really moved by is somewhere between of Oscar Wilde type of a male: the fop, the long hair, the suits, too witty for his own good, incredibly smart, scathingly funny - all that. But then my other ideal is more like the Buddhist monk - the shaved head, actually someone who sublimates their sexuality.” LongHairTypeSmartIdealsMovedMalesWittySexualitySuitsBuddhistOscarsMonkLong HairWildeBuddhist MonkShaved Head Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I think I began getting really influenced by that whole punk scene around the age of 13 or 14-I went through that whole thing like the shaved head. I was always interested in what people called "the darker side," whatever that was, and the kind of look that you would see in the old horror films. So I let that become more of my persona.” PeopleThinkingLooksKindWholeAgeFilmSidesHorrorScenePunkPersonaHorror FilmDarker SideShaved Head Author:Rozz Williams
“The al-Qaida cell broken up near Buffalo, N.Y., contains some citizens who also found themselves in Afghanistan, training for the Great All-Around Satan Smiting. Treason? Oh, of course not. They were on a religious pilgrimage and got lost. Happens all the time. I knew a kid who went to Lutheran Bible Camp and turned up six years later in a Christian Identity compound with a shaved head and a Hitler mustache.” YearsHappensKidsChristianCoursesFoundLostReligiousIdentityBrokenCitizensSixTrainingCellsSatanAlsCampsAfghanistanCompoundsTreasonPilgrimageMustacheBuffaloBroken UpLutheransShaved Head Author:James Lileks
“People always ask if I was really voted Most Bizarre Girl in high school. But that one's actually true. I was living in Michigan in a very conservative town and had a nose-ring and a shaved head and did kind of strange things.” PeopleIfsKindSchoolGirlAsksStrangeHigh SchoolTownsConservativeRingsNosesBizarreStrange ThingsMichiganShaved Head Author:Gillian Anderson
“I was a young rebel and really just wanted to be tatted with a shaved head. When I did it, I cried for a week.” WantedYoungWeekRebelCriedShaved Head Author:Amber Rose
“Just women who are really eclectic, so every woman from Gwyneth Paltrow to Peggy Nolan, who has half a shaved head and has a totally wild aesthetic. They're woman who are doing things, running their own businesses, taking chances at different levels of success and different industries. A lot of my friends are creatives. It was just who I really adore and wanted to share with a greater audience.” DifferentRunningWantedChanceLevelsHalfAudienceGreaterShareIndustryMy FriendsAestheticAdoreTake A ChanceOwn BusinessDifferent LevelsEclecticNolanShaved Head Author:Sophia Amoruso
“One of the amazing things about 'Seven Samurai' is that there are a lot of characters. And considering you have so many, and they all have shaved heads, and you've got good guys and bad guys and peasants, you get to understand a lot of them without too much being said.” SaidCharacterGuyToo MuchSevenConsideringBad GuysPeasantsAmazing ThingsGood GuySamuraiShaved Head Author:George Lucas
“Never mind that to me, the face of Afghanistan is that of a boy with a thin-boned frame, a shaved head, and low-set ears, a boy with a Chinese doll face perpetually lit by a harelipped smile. Never mind any of those things. Because history isn't easy to overcome. Neither is religion. In the end, I was a Pashtun and he was a Hazara, I was Sunni and he was Shi'a, and nothing was ever going to change that. Nothing.” MindEndsFacesEasyBoysLowsEarsOvercomingChineseAfghanistanLitDollsShaved HeadPashtuns Book:The Kite Runner Source: The Kite Runner
“Men with shaved heads are always better. Just ask my wife.” MenAsksWifeMy WifeShaved Head Author:Tom Colicchio
“I've always wanted to shave my head for a role because I've wanted to play a character who had a shaved head. I don't know what the fascination is.” KnowsPlayCharacterWantedRolesFascinationShaved Head Author:Elisha Cuthbert
“I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.” YearsFirstsHandsRunningHairFirst TimeYears AgoTherapeuticDieselShaved Head Author:Vin Diesel
“Well, no. I was getting into trouble messing around with it for roles. So one night I went home, cut it down with a pair of scissors and then got in the bath and shaved it all off. I've never looked back.” WellsHomeNightRolesCuttingTroublePairsBathsOne NightScissorsShaved Head Author:Richard O'Brien
“I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter.” BitsLocksShaved Head Author:David Ginola