Isaac Mizrahi's Quotes

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're not working with models, you're working with real women who have, like, anatomy. Models do not have anatomy.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

Either it works or it doesn't.

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.

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

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

All I want are high heels, high heels. If I was a girl, I'd wear a lot of high heels. High, stiletto heels.

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.

How do I do it? I don't know how I wouldn't do it - that's the thing.

I don't want to offend people.

I have a lot of obligations.

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

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.