Isaac Mizrahi

“I don't want to offend people.”

“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.”

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

“When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Either it works or it doesn't.”