Mean people are no fun.

I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can’t talk about that. I’m looking to stay alive.

Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it’s inside one person’s head, so that part of it’s made up and the rest of it is reality.

I love women. I’m trying to do beautiful things with them. I’m not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.

We’re not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

No one should be allowed to play the violin until he has mastered it.

I’ve been strong and determined all my life about many things I’ve wanted.

Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.

When we first sort of break in or bust into the house, if you will, there’s some tough love.

I could’t have gotten to the place where I am if I had been tripping on acid during the day.

People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.

I really like the original Apes costumes. The colors were great, and the use of heavy materials was something that influenced me for this film.

I personally would not have plastic surgery. What the hell for? It looks ridiculous.

What we’re doing is fun – if you have any sense of humor at all!

If life were just, we would be born old and achieve youth about the time we’d saved enough to enjoy it.

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I’m upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that way you might change the world.

I couldn’t have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

People read things into my commercials that don’t even exist.

I’ve been lucky in the things I’ve got to work on. I’ve been able to keep it fresh, always getting to do different kinds of things.

I still drink vodka; I’m not an advocate of drinking, but I’m no angel. I don’t like grass, because it just makes me hungry.

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don’t get into it alone!

Might does not make right, it only makes history.

If you really love someone and care about him, you can survive many difficulties.

Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

I don’t always want my opinion known. What little privacy I have left I’d like to maintain.

People who run a ready-to-wear company are businessmen rather than production or design people.

The first Chicago was definitely a product of its time, and Chicago the musical is definitely a contemporary look at another time.

I’m crazy, and I don’t pretend to be anything else.

When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39?

I’ve met people who didn’t even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.

It seems there’s always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.

Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to others in the things you make.

I don’t dwell on success. Maybe that’s one reason I’m successful.

Some people feel that what we’re doing makes no sense, that it’s just a waste of money. But it’s working.

While researching design, I was inspired globally, from Peru to Turkey to Africa to Japan-from the 5th century through to today.

I’m in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

Women’s Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.

I think there’s something incredibly sexy about a woman wearing her boyfriend’s T-shirt and underwear.

It’s fun seeing my label on someone’s behind – I like that.

In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.