Quotes By Karl Lagerfeld

I have more friends in New York than Paris.

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

I do my job like I breathe.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It's a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

What I love best in life is new starts.

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.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

There's something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living.

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

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian.

I can do whatever I want.

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.

I didn't play with other children.

What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

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

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

Buy clothes the size you want to wear.

I love to watch times change!

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

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.

My mother did not like children.

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.

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

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.

Who buys French cars? Not me.

No one wants to see curvy women.

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

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

Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself.