I have a lot of obligations.

- Isaac Mizrahi

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.

- Isaac Mizrahi

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.

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

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.

- Isaac Mizrahi

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.

- Isaac Mizrahi

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.

- Isaac Mizrahi

Everyone asks, Will he make it, will she make it? You never make it.

- Isaac Mizrahi

I don't want to offend people.

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

- Isaac Mizrahi

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!

- Isaac Mizrahi

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.

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

- Isaac Mizrahi

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

- Isaac Mizrahi