Quotes from Isaac Mizrahi

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.

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.

A mutt is couture-it's the only one like it in the world, made especially for you.

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.

Flirting is conversational chemistry.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.

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

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

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

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.

Either it works or it doesn't.

I equate peonies with love because they're the first blooms of summer.

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

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

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

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'm so involved in melancholy.