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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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