Karl Lagerfeld's Quotes

I do my job like I breathe.

I don't do meetings.

I don't know what 'normal' means, anyway.

I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.

I don't want to be on the Internet.

I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

I eat fish, three times a week meat, and if not yogurt, something like this and it rarely continues.

I eat next to nothing.

I hardly went to school.

I hate the past - especially my own past.

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

I have no human feelings.

I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.

I love to watch times change!

I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.

I never fall in love.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It's more fun to come to Paris.

I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

I never played with anything like toys.

I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.

I think for my bones and my size, I better stay with my 60 kilo.

I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

I wanted to become a cartoon artist, a portrait artist, and an illustrator. This was my first idea.

I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.

I would like to be a one-man multinational fashion phenomenon.

I'm an iPod person.

I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.

I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know.

I'm like a rock singer with one-night stands on the road.

I'm lucky to work in the most perfect of conditions.

I'm not a fortune-teller.

I'm totally myself.

I've done many ads because that's my new career. It's an inspiring extension for my mind.

Music is part of the life of fashion, too.

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

My mother did not like children.

My opinion can be completely different after a show.

No one wants to see curvy women.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.

People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

Personally, I don't wear fur.

Some people would like me to be round again.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.

The importance of logo into today's fashion is un! be! Lievable!

The story with anorexic girls - nobody works with anorexic girls. That has nothing to do with fashion.

There are so many people in the world who cannot read English or French or whatever.

What I enjoy most is doing something I've never done before.

What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I'll die and it'll all be finished.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it's important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I'm still like this.

I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.

I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.

I never - you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don't wake up before - the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.

It's only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I'm skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I'm big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Yes, some people say to me you're too skinny, but never a skinny person says that to me, only people who could lose a few pounds say that.

When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.