Iris Apfel Quotes

Everything is customised, from my watches to my phone. I like my things to be different.

Real luxury is customization.

No two of our stores are the same.

I see the world become so uniform. Everybody has to be the same. I like people who are different.

But to me, to be original is to be yourself.

In this world, one thing you should definitely strive for is originality. Just be who you are, and be your own person. That's what will make you stand out.

You really do have to be different. You really do have to set yourself apart.

You custom make your own car, ain't nobody else driving that.

The movies I do have to be different in some way. Nothing vanilla will do.

I'm not just cookie-cutter. You always see something different.

You have to be unique.

We’re all misfits herefrom our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

Let's look different! I like monster movies, so why can't I have Godzilla's face on my boots?

I never wanted to be run of the mill.

I never wanted to be well-rounded. I do not admire well-rounded people nor their work. So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable.

We''re all misfits here,” he says, almost proudly. “That's why I started this squat, after all. For people like us, who don't fit in anywhere else. Halfies and homos and hopeless romantics, the outcast and outrageous and terminally weird. That's where art comes from, Jimmy, my friend. From our weirdnesses and our differences, from our manic fixations, our obsessions, our passions. From all those wild and wacky things that make each of us unique.

Be different; be unique; be yourself.

[Being unique] gives so much privilege to people who can make it, rather than having some moral and aesthetic discussions.

With families and music, you're usually looking for something that can make you unique.

In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.

I think if people are passionate about something, it could be real estate or biochemistry, and that spark gets turned on in them, everyone's beautiful in that zone.

Labels don't mean anything to me. I'm trying to play as passionately as I'm able to. If they want to call that cool, that's fine. Just spell the name right, is the formula.

I love to personalize things. I love to make things my own. I like to name everything - from cars to iPhones to the socks I just lost.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.