Quotes by Isaac Mizrahi

• Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.
• That's one thing about fashion that you really shouldn't be-you can't be melancholy in fashion because people don't respond to it.
• The last thing I want to become is one of those talking heads where everything is satiny smooth and you know what the next question is going to be.
• The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.
• The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.
• This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
• What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!
• What you do, you don't think of as a product.
• You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.
• When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.
• You don't necessarily live for the moment; you live for hope-what you're going to get, what you're going to say, what you're going to think.
• You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.
• You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.
• You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.
• People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
• How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.
• When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
• I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
• I have a lot of obligations.
• All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.
• Either it works or it doesn't.
• Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.
• Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.
• Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.
• I don't want to offend people.
• I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
• Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
• I'm so involved in melancholy.
• If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
• In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it's still limited. But here you have just everything.
• Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
• I don't like people to feel completely described by the clothes they wear of mine. I want them to feel that they're describing themselves.
• I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me, his face is new and might be legendary someday.