Calvin Klein Quotes


"I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Life, Love, Women, Insult, Trying)

"I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?"
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Television)

"I couldn't have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Newspapers)

"I don't always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I'd like to maintain."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Opinion, Privacy, Want)

"I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Success, Successful, Reason)

"I don't think about my fame very much."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Fame)

"I don't trust a lot of journalists."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Trust)

"I guess I don't have a proper perspective on my fame; if I did, I don't think I'd like it."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Fame, Perspective)

"AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Argument, Being, Disease)

"I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Life, Body, Right, Woman)

"Anyone who is secure about herself shouldn't be threatened by the ads I do."
- Calvin Klein
"I have the New York Daily News to thank for the jeans controversy."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Controversy, News)

"I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Business)

"I'm crazy, and I don't pretend to be anything else."
- Calvin Klein
"I'm a sexual person, and that's reflected in my clothes and my advertisements."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Clothes)

"I have the reputation of being easygoing. But inside, I'm like nails. I will kill."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Being, Reputation, Will)

"I think there's something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend's T-shirt and underwear."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Boyfriend, Woman)

"I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Drinking)

"I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Hell)

"I love Brooke. Exploiting her was never my intention."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Love, Intention)

"Commercials capture your attention, that's all."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Attention)

"Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Money, People, Sense, Waste)

"I'm neither Democrat nor Republican."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Republican)

"Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?"
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Men, Clothes, Earth, Fashion, Nothing)

"There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: People, Awareness, Country, Fashion, Gay)

"There has been a change in men's attitudes toward their clothes. Men are more aware of fashion; they're not afraid of it."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Change, Men, Clothes, Fashion)

"There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: People, Fashion, Gay)

"We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Sports, Clothes, Conservative, Fashion)

"Women's Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Women)

"I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Politics, Want)

"No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Experience, Company, Sales)

"People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: People, Crime, Fashion, Talk)

"People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Health, People)

"The only way to advertise is by not focusing on the product."
- Calvin Klein
"People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Design, People, Company, Production)

"I've been strong and determined all my life about many things I've wanted."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Life)

"The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Makeup)

"My men's-underwear print ads are very popular!"
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Men)

"Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price."
- Calvin Klein
"What we're doing is fun - if you have any sense of humor at all!"
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Humor, Fun, Sense)

"It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Fun)

"I'm not a drug addict. My wild period wasn't about drugs; it was about sexual freedom."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Drugs, Freedom)

"It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Life, People, Rumor)

"If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Love, Care, Difficulties)

"If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Mistakes)

"I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Thought, People, Name)

"I'm not selling sex. I'm selling underwear and jeans, and I'm not trying to do it with pornography."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Sex, Selling, Pornography, Trying)

"I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Trying, Universe, Want)

"People read things into my commercials that don't even exist."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: People)

"My wardrobe consists of antique clothes, many of my designs, plus shoes and shirts from Brooks Brothers and Paul Stuart."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Brooks, Brothers, Clothes)

"When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Work, Business, Home, Career)

"You don't only worry about the people who hate or resent you; in a way, you're more worried about the people who love you."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Love, People, Hate, Worry)

"We were using Brooke as an actress; she was playing different roles: a liberated woman, a teenager, a vamp."
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Woman)

"Traditionally, the sample is always better than the stock you deliver to the store."
- Calvin Klein
"When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!"
- Calvin Klein
(Related: Hope, Bed, Night)