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“I'm a believer in fate and in fulfilling your destiny. I've always had a kind of inner voice that I have learned to listen to.”

“I'm a very serious person.”

“I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.”

“I'm living the exact life I planned on living when I was five. My life has taken some turns and changes that I didn't anticipate, and it has brought me different things. I thought material things would bring me happiness, which they didn't. But through this, I have learned what things are important and what aren't.”

“If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.”

“If you're at the Oscars, there's not a man on that red carpet who is not wearing make-up. Most straight actors I know get quite used to it. Even when they go out in real life they grab some sort of bronzer and they throw it on. They dye their eyebrows, they dye their lashes – they know the tricks.”

“In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.”

“L.A. is my American city.”

“Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.”

“My grandmother was probably the first person who I thought was beautiful. She was incredibly stylish, she had big hair, big cars. I was probably 3 years old, but she was like a cartoon character. She'd swoop into our lives with presents and boxes, and she always smelled great and looked great.”

“My own skin-care ritual is quite simple and straightforward; I don't like a lot of fuss, surprisingly. My products are designed to make you look and feel better. I think there are a lot of men out there who want and need the same products.”

“On the one hand, I want to go off and live in the desert with my dog and sculpt things out of adobe.”

“Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.”

“Part of fashion is newness. It's got to be a new combination of elements that's shocking-stunning-beautiful all at the same time. But it doesn't have any emotion.”

“September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.”

“Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.”

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“The most important thing is to cleanse and moisturise your face twice a day. Use eye drops. If your eyes are white, you look healthy; you look fresh. Every man should have a magnifying mirror. If you look good magnified, you are set to go.”

“The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.”

“The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.”

“There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.”

“There's a different kind of comfort that comes from knowing that you are putting your best foot forward. It's called psychological comfort. Look at a picture of the Coney Island boardwalk in 1925. Men were in full-on three-piece suits, hats. They may have only had one suit. But they pressed it. They made it look as good as possible.”

“We live in a material world. I'm not saying that beautiful things don't enhance our lives. But, in our culture, we're never happy.”

“When I am on my deathbed, I don't think I will be thinking about a nice pair of shoes I had or my beautiful house. I am going to be thinking about an evening I spent with somebody when I was twenty where I felt that I was just absolutely connected to them.”

“When I read about young designers selling 51 percent of their company to someone else, I cringe. I want to say, 'Don't do it – call me first.”

“When I was a little kid, all I wanted to do was to escape what I thought was the country and get to a city. Probably film and television had influenced me so much, I really thought the key to happiness was living a very artificial life in a penthouse in New York with martini glasses.”

“When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.”

“When you are having fun and creating something you love, it shows in the product. So when a woman is sifting through a rack of clothes, somehow that piece of clothing that you had so much fun designing speaks to her; she responds to it and buys it. I believe you can actually transfer that energy to material things as you're creating them.”

“You always notice a facelift on a woman. It's a tightness around the ears, and the scar is usually inside the ears. If I suspect it's been done, I usually move around until I can see it. But with a man, it actually pulls your beard and your sideburns back, and that's what's so strange.”

“Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.”

“Your name is a funny thing. It stands for what you're about, and everything I do is really about pride.”

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