Isaac Mizrahi Infosite
Isaac Mizrahi Quotes
• I'd love to talk to Angelina Jolie. On my show I would love her because she's a mysterious, mysterious figure.
• You know what makes me teary? Goya. Goya makes me cry.
• You know who a role model for me is? George Ballanchine.
• 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.
• 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.
• I'm not trying to be the next Joan Rivers.
• I don't want to offend people.
• I have a lot of obligations.
• I'm so involved in melancholy.
• 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.
• 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.
• This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.
• 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.
• Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol.
• Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is.
• People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.
• Sometimes I'm really dressed up, and it really turns me on.
• 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.
• 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.
• If you try to have a fashion show with Bach fugues and John Coltrane, it doesn't really work.
• 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 more relaxed you can get, the better you'll do.
• 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!
• What you do, you don't think of as a product.
• When people ask, Do you like children? I always say, I like some children, yes. Some children I don't like.
• When someone says you can't do what you know you can do, then you can't do anything.
• 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.
Isaac Mizrahi Filmography
2006 - Ugly Betty
2006 - Live from the Red Carpet: The 2006 Golden Globe Awards
2005 - Isaac
2002 - Hollywood Ending
2001 - Born in Brooklyn
2000 - Small Time Crooks
2000 - Frasier
1998 - Celebrity
1993 - For Love or Money
1980 - Fame
Costume Designer
2002 - Stage on Screen: The Women
1992 - Liza Minnelli Live from Radio City Music Hall
- Costume and Wardrobe Department
1996 - Cremaster 1
Appearance
2008 - Paula's Party
2007 - Martha
2005-2007 - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2006 - Jeopardy!
2006 - The View
2006 - Live from the Red Carpet: The 2006 Academy Awards
2006 - #1 Single
2005 - The Tony Danza Show
2005 - Good Morning America
2005 - Grin & Barrett
2005 - Seamless
2005 - The Oprah Winfrey Show
2004 - The Apprentice
2003-2004 - Late Night with Conan O'Brien
2004 - Dinner for Five
2004 - Happy to Be Nappy and Other Stories of Me
2003 - Hollywood Squares
2002 - Sex and the City 2002 - The American Experience
2002 - Liza and David
2001 - The Isaac Mizrahi Show
1999 - The 20th Century: Yesterday's Tomorrows
1998 - Beautopia
1997 - Spin City
1997 - Mad TVf
1996 - Catwalk
1996 - Lauren Hutton and
1995 - The Hollywood Fashion Machine
1995 - Unzipped
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