Isaac Mizrahi

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

“I'm so involved in melancholy.”

“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.”

“The more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.”

“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!”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

“Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.”

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

“I have a lot of obligations.”

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