Iris Apfel Quotes

I don't feel like I have to prove anybody right or wrong.

Don't live your life to please other people.

I'm done living for other people. I'm done being a people pleaser. I'm done thinking about what people think about me.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I couldn't care less what anybody says about me. I live my life, especially my personal life, strictly for myself... Whatever you do, you're going to be criticized. I feel the one sensible thing you can do is try to live in a way that pleases you.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

You can't please everybody. All you can do is please yourself.

I don't think I need to prove anything to anybody.

I think - and even with the Live Chin Up movement - it's about women doing things for themselves. Being empowered. Doing things that make you happy. I believe in that philosophy.

...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love

I don't have a strategy. I am my own person. So if people disagree with the opinion of my father and want to dislike me because I'm his daughter, then I'm probably not going to be able to discourage them from that.

But I'm glad you'll see me as I am. Above all, I wouldn't want people to think that I want to prove anything. I don't want to prove anything, I just want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself. I have that right, haven't I?

If it is something that is right for human beings, then I don't care if other people criticize. You cannot please everyone in the world.

Part One: I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. Part Two: Everybody else is free to do whatever they feel like doing, for a living. Part Three: Responsible is Able to Respond, able to answer for the way we choose to live. There's only one person we have to answer to, of course, and that is ourselves.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

How you present yourself is nobody's business but your own. The stylists have an opinion. The hair people have an opinion. The fans and the management have opinions. Ultimately, you have to trust that you are the safe-keeper of yourself.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

I don't live on other people's terms.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

I'm just living my life, and I'm not gonna live my life for other people.

I've learned not to let people judge me in how I want to live my life. Every single woman is an individual, and there's no one path. You just have to take the path that you think is right for you.

I do need my independence. I have to have that.

I don't care what other people think. I don't think it matters.

I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.