Iris Apfel Quotes

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I'm crazy and I don't pretend to be anything else.

I'm drawn to the unconventional because I've been drawn unconventionally. I believe that I'm supposed to topple over these false images of what's idealistically beautiful. Because, of course, these intangible qualities are very attractive to women. Sincerity. Sense of humor. Success.

I am enormously uncool. I've made a cottage industry of being uncool. And I'm fine with that.

In the entertainment world, you can have more of a personality and be yourself. You don't have to look like a standard of beauty. You can have something provocative to say.

Whether people think I'm old fashioned, I don't care. I've always been very comfortable in my own skin. I've never been a brandist, I don't use words like philosophy, that sort of stuff isn't for me.

I don't care what anyone thinks about me.

I have always dressed to please myself, not other people. I don't care what they think.

I'm aware that I don't look like the traditional or the stereotypical type of Hollywood starlet and that is OK with me.

Even the fact that I labelled myself makes me mad sometimes, because dude, I'm just a free spirit.

I don't care what other people think about me to be honest with you.

There are times I wish I was more conventional. I would get a husband and a baby and a big SUV in the 'burbs and be happy. But forging my own way - my career, my relationships with wonderful but troubled people - that's who I am.

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live.

It delights me that I don't fit the stereotype of an actress.

I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way.

Well, he's just the same guy who in other aspects of his life would be very late to a trend.

A lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me, and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.

I don't care what people think. people are stupid.

When I first got into the league, I tried to fit in. Now I don't care.

Art is maybe a subversive activity. There is a certain rebellion when you are an artist at heart, even if only in the art of living.

I really don't care what people think of me.

I couldn't care less about what people think of me! I do what I do, and I don't care about what other people think is cool. I don't care about image!

I am not concerned with truth, nor with conventional notions of what is beautiful.