Isaac Mizrahi Quotes
"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."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: People, Fashion, Melancholy)
"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."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Question, Talking, Want)
"The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do."
- Isaac Mizrahi
"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."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: People, Games, Reason)
"This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Being)
"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!"
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Fantasy, Forget, Want)
"What you do, you don't think of as a product."
- Isaac Mizrahi
"You're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Women)
"When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything."
- Isaac Mizrahi
"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."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Hope)
"You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry."
- Isaac Mizrahi
"You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine."
- Isaac Mizrahi
"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."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Work, Right, Sound)
"People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: People, Clothes, Fashion, Press)
"How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing."
- Isaac Mizrahi
"When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: People, Children)
"I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Rivers, Trying)
"I have a lot of obligations."
- Isaac Mizrahi
"All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Want)
"Either it works or it doesn't."
- Isaac Mizrahi
"Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Food, Temple, America)
"Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Will)
"Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Time)
"I don't want to offend people."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: People, Want)
"I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Love, Talk)
"Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Life, Food, American, Choice, Television)
"I'm so involved in melancholy."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Melancholy)
"If I just do it, it will take less time than telling someone what I'm thinking, and have them free associate, and then come back to me and I'll hate it and I'll have to redo it."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Time, Hate, Thinking, Will)
"If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Work, Fashion)
"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."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Living, Paris)
"Just when I think I hate fashion, I hate clothes, I'm seized by this crazy thing that I have to do. I have this little studio now where I just draw. I can be in the room for three days and not even look up."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Clothes, Fashion, Hate, Now)
"Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: 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."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: People, Clothes, Want)
"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."
- Isaac Mizrahi
(Related: Love, Leading, Man, Talk)