Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

Karl Lagerfeld

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• I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Feel

• The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Play

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Reason
  • Poet
  • Himself

• I think that its easy to think of the environment as all doom and gloom and that, 'What can we do, it's too late. And the polar bears are gone, and everything is gone.' But really, just the little steps that we can make as individuals make a big difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Easy

• From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Money

• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • History
  • Write
  • Main Thing

• I am very lucky I got fans, and I interact with them personally. I know that they have poured their love on me unconditionally, and all I can do is work hard and be kind to them.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Love
  • Know
  • Kind

• Acting is not a mystery. There's nothing that I know that other actors don't know. We all act, we're all actors, we all know the same thing. The only thing that separates us is experience.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Experience
  • Same
  • Mystery

• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Real
  • You
  • Need

• World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Great
  • Help
  • Death

• I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Hands
  • Mountain
  • Kitchen

• If I don't train enough, of course I'm nervous.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Enough
  • Train
  • Nervous

• We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Want
  • Best
  • Players

• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.

  

  Daisy Ashford
  • Idea
  • Wind
  • My Own

• I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Time
  • Three
  • Take

• My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Life
  • Beatles
  • Trap

• I think it is not irreligion but a tidiness of mind, which rebels against the idea of permeating scientific research with a religious implication.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind
  • Religious

• I loved playing the headmistress in 'The Falling' - she was so spiteful. She certainly fancied herself quite a lot.

  

  Monica Dolan
  • Playing
  • Falling
  • Certainly

• Do it all the time – work hard. It’s hard work .

  

  Isabella Summers Florence and the Machine
  • Work Hard
  • All The Time

• My father was an electrical contractor, while I used to deliver video cassettes on a cycle to people in Juhu and Bandra, including celebrities like Mithun Chakraborty. Mithunda remembers me and is very proud of me. He can't believe that the guy who used to come to his house in short pants has become so successful.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • People
  • Believe
  • Father

• I'm not a social person. Not that I'm not at ease. I'm pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It's not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that's all.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Book
  • Fashion