Quotes from Tom Ford

Beyonce in real life is actually quite quiet and very sweet.

There is no more dramatic accessory than a perfect lip. It is the focus of the face and it has the power to define a woman's whole look.

If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes - they know the tricks.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well.

I am not someone who likes cocktail parties or large dinner parties, but I have to attend them often. I much prefer very small dinners with close friends.

I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.

On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.

A few times in my life I've had moments of clarity where the silence drowns out the noise and I can feel rather than think.

When you find somebody good, keep them in your life.

When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.

I don't work for money any longer. I'm fortunate enough not to need to work for money, but I work for pride; I work because I love to work, and so the idea that one could lose control of one's own name and that things could be produced with your name on that you were not proud of scared me.

The dynamics of film directing and fashion design - in the ways that I've done it - were not dissimilar.

Advertising is, of course, important because advertise is the final design. It's the last layer that speaks to the customer, that tells them what you have.

Just because one is spiritual doesn't mean that one doesn't like crocodile, cashmere. We live in a material world. We still experience these things. It doesn't mean to completely disregard them.

Everyday is one less day.

You never make it, especially in this industry where you constantly churn out stuff, things. You never finish.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

I believe in living life the way that you want to live it every day, and if you do that, you don't really need to have New Year's resolutions.

Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.

I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five.

A lot of the things I did - it's not going to sound anything but egotistical - if I'm lucky and I did the right thing, they will be at Zara way before I can get them in the store, and I don't like that.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

I just want to make beautiful, glamorous clothes.

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.