Isaac Mizrahi Quotes - Page 2

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.

Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is

Even though I grew up as a Sephardic Jew in Brooklyn where we ate Syrian food and went to temple, it was still America.

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

Half the time I don't even think about it, I just throw something on because I'm so late or so busy.

A bathroom should be sterile and beautiful and functional. It should exude Japanese-style purity.

Flirting is conversational chemistry.

The moon is such a planet, I can’t even stand it. What else is it if it’s not a planet?

I don't want to offend people.

I have a lot of obligations.

I'm so involved in melancholy.

You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.

Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol

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.

Where is the real low thing? Where are the jelly shoes that you find that are sick because they’re so great…Everything has air quotes around it now.

You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine

When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything

What you do, you don't think of as a product

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!

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

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.

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.

I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.

50s cheesecake meets Eskimo fake fur.