Nobu Matsuhisa Quotes

It's fun seeing my label on someone's behind - I like that.

When I put on my Marine cover, I'm a Marine, and I act accordingly.

When I'm wearing my uniform I'm still locked into the game.

What difference does the uniform make? You don't hit with it.

I almost always wear a jacket, but I like different jackets. I also like funny pants.

I am a fashion graduate, and I try to make a fashion statement which defines my individuality, as clothes are not just what you wear, but they also communicate.

I've got two very sophisticated daughters who'd rather die than see their dad in a technicoloured knitted jacket.

I love dresses best because I enjoy being a woman.

When we think about labor, we usually think about motivation and payment as the same thing, but the reality is that we should probably add all kinds of things to it - meaning, creation, challenges, ownership, identity, pride, etc.

It's as interesting to me as someday getting to play in some beautiful period piece where the costumes are from a completely different era. This feels as extreme as that, and that's really liberating. It's really liberating to just go 180 from what my life is like. I love that! I love not having to think about clothes. I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, "It would be so much easier!"

We are what we wear, we wear what we are

It was nothing, but it was Adam Parrish's nothing. How he hated and loved it. How proud he was of it, how wretched it was.

I wear some of my stuff, but usually the less in-your-face designs. I get a little self conscious, there is a fine line between pride and ego.

Your agent or manager tells you. They go, "You're out. They're gonna get a new guy." But then I didn't feel bad. I didn't take it personally. Not that I'm competitive at all. But you have pride in that, you know? You want your ratings to be good. But now that I'm 62, I don't really care about the ratings. I don't care about the reviews. I care about the work, and I care about the people that I'm working with, and I try to make the experience for them and myself as good as it can be.

A dress has no life of its own unless it is worn, and as soon as this happens another personality takes over from you and animates it, or tries to, glorifies or destroys it, or makes it into a song of beauty.

When I put on my uniform, I feel I am the proudest man on earth.

Our wine is bitter, but it is our wine.

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

Who do I belong to? How come I mortgaged my being till I don't belong to myself? How come I sold my blood? And who now owns my indecisions, my hands, my private pain, my pride?

I wanted the world to know where I was from. I wanted to say to the world, "We gotcha." America gotcha.

Dress is an index of your contents.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

The competition, the naysayers, the owners who talk too much. The people who don't think a 36-year-old can do what I do. I take a lot of pride in my craft, I work really hard at my craft everyday, and I'm a true professional.

In Europe I couldn't be anything but a black cook working for somebody. My inspiration was to own, to be the chef.

I think that clothes should be a shelter like a house or a rug. I think that there is that element of protection and a uniform can be just that.