Top 25 Isaac Mizrahi Quotes

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

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

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!

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.

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.

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

How do I do it? I don’t know how I wouldn’t do it – that’s the thing.

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

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.

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.

Half the time I don’t even think about it, I just throw something on because I’m so late or so busy.

I don’t want to offend people.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes I’m really dressed up, and it really turns me on.

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

When someone says you can’t do what you know you can do, then you can’t do anything.

I’m so involved in melancholy.

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