Quotes About Sophistication

'The State Within' demands a certain intelligence from its audience. It doesn't just wash over you - it asks for commitment. And that's a really good thing.

I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all.

My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

The flowering of civilization is the finished man, the man of sense, of grace, of accomplishment, of social power--the gentleman.

Will was very British and on his way to very drunk.

There are certain adolescents, usually female, who possess wisdom far in advance of age or explanation. That

I am not one to seek simple causes.

You don't talk about celebrities in the Hamptons, duh!

I drank too much, only champagne.

I love Chanel.

When I was growing up, my mother always wore Chanel.

I love Chanel. Chanel, Chanel, Chanel, Chanel!

There's a special feeling that you get from Chanel that you don't get from any other show.

Coco Chanel had that famous line about when you go out the house take off one accessory, so I kind of live by that rule.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr. was a very savvy character. His drinking and carousing, his charisma and intelligence... the things he did in Congress. He passed for white, then became a black advocate.

It is important to be chic.

What is chic is just to be perfect, like magical, no?

Audrey Hepburn was always so chic, simple, and beautiful.

The French are so phenomenally, casually chic!

I try and be a little bit chic. I wouldn't wear sweatpants. I wouldn't wear a twinset.

I tend to read quite serious things in order to try and appear superior.

There was so much on 'Superstar' that we didn't intend. I mean, there were things that we did which were innovative, but some of them were forced on us because we couldn't get anybody to do the show. 'Evita' was much more sophisticated. That doesn't make it better, but it does make it different. We knew what we were doing.

You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.