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

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

“I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.”

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

“I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.”

“I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.”

“I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a pi...”

“People have to learn that everybody is the same. If you wake up in the morning, even if you're a movie star, you look like everybody else. The reality is that makeup is there to help. That's what i...”

“My movies are usually about stripping off the makeup, getting down to the skeleton.”

“There's a strength in that look, a wilfulness; one would almost call it defiance except that it is so good-humoured. It is the look a woman would wear - would have worn - if she asked a man, a stra...”

“If its reality you want, I suggest you look out the window.”

“Reality is how you look at it”

“I don't even know what my natural color is. Natural? What is natural? What is that? I do not believe in totally natural for women. For me, natural has something to do with vegetables”

“It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the truth.”

“The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with knowledge of a place. It is a sort of ritual of familiarity. As a form, it i...”