Tony Curtis Quotes

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker.

I've always wanted to design a home collection line because growing up, I was obsessed with reorganizing my room.

If I wasn't an actress, I'd be a designer. I love interior design and inventing things that are practical but also beautiful - looking at a space and creating magic.

Whenever television cameras are interviewing people in their homes, I tend to look over their shoulders and have a good snoop at their living rooms. I am always astonished at how clean they all look, with nothing out of place or unnecessary or dropped down any old how.

Ask anyone who knows me - I am constantly moving things around in my place.

I get up in the morning, look around, arrange and rearrange things, and imagine how I might like them to look. Why doesn't everybody?

There are two kinds of people in the world - those who have a horror of a vacuum and those with a horror of the things that fill it. Translated into domestic interiors, this means people who live with, and without, clutter.

A home is very, very important to me. But I do change things around a lot.

I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

Just because one likes to cook up a great meal or decorate their home doesn't mean they have to do it with granite counter tops and duck a l'orange.

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

I love helping people put their homes in order.

Having wires strewn across your couch and across the floor is a big deal to a lot of people.

Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.

I clean out my house weekly. I just keep a lot of silly little things that are meaningful to me.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.

After student years of flat-sharing and living with other people's taste, I went into decorating overdrive when I acquired my first apartment - its floor plan not much bigger than the vintage Hermes scarves I then wore side-knotted on my head, pirate-style.

I'm so unmaterialistic in every way. If you saw my apartment, it would explain a lot, I think. It's not so much a mess, but it just needs to have some feng shui or a real 'Queer Eye' makeover or whatever.

I would drown in objects if I didn't have the ability to photograph them.

I like the word 'artist,' but I don't like the word 'artist' inside my house.

I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes.

It's intimidating to try and pull your home together if you don't have an interior designer.

I've always been a bit of a decorator. I think if I wasn't a singer I'd probably be in stage setting or interior design or something. I like clutter and I'm quite visually greedy. I can't have things to be plain; I have to have things looking interesting... maybe I'm just a frustrated interior designer stuck in a singing career.

I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs, and how the couches would be situated.