Tom Ford Quotes (62 Quotes)

I just hope there are a lot more people like me voting in Texas than we hear about.

Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.

Very little black -- we're opening with one black outfit. Lots of nude for the evening.

I love fashion, ... What I love is the ability to express yourself, to be able to make a product and shoot an ad campaign that tosses you out into the world and lets you have a voice in contemporary culture, iconography. I felt a little bit neutered not having that voice.

I'm a very serious person.

Over the last twenty or thirty years, which in the scheme of things is fast, we've become comfortable as a society with homosexuality.

They always pitch well. They don't beat themselves. They don't walk too many people. They attack the strike zone, so we've got to be aggressive at the plate.

I like to just have fun and be silly and say pretty much whatever comes into my mind, do pretty much whatever I want.

I'm a Texas resident, so my vote will be cast in a red state.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded.

The thing about eyewear is that it is so potent, ... There are very few accessories that, if you were not wearing anything, if you put on they would date you to a whole era. You could look the Thirties, the Fifties, and the Nineties just by your eyewear. It's like a pair of shoes because it is sculptural. It exists without a face. It tells a lot about where you are architecturally or aesthetically in a particular period in time.

From the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important.

My mother was always very political and very much a Democrat.

It's really (about) putting that sort of quality and beauty back into our life.

Thanks to all the increased communication that television, film, and the internet have created, even people in small towns in Middle America are exposed to the same things as people in urban areas.

There aren't many strong or charismatic candidates today, because many people can't withstand the scrutiny.

I love that idea of something really bare and something really covered up. Two things you know that really work together.

It shows the character of our team. In hard times like this, how you respond reveals the character of a team. We haven't let it bother us.

Sometimes clients come here and having paid for travelling and holiday, a doctor might feel obliged to go through with the operation, even if the person is not suited.

I have something to say about menswear. There's nothing yet for me to say to women and it may be never and it may be soon. I just don't know.

September 11th was a moment when America had the sympathy of the world.

It was horrible. I did not want to leave, ... I was deeply, deeply depressed for probably six months. I felt like my life might just end. It's only recently that I'm completely over it.

The Bush administration has squelched freedom of speech.

Artists, like yourself, are born with a need to express that's just innate.

We talked a lot about this at the beginning of the season - about playing for something on the last weekend and certainly that's what we're doing. We want to take full advantage of the opportunity.

We live in a country of differences, and we should be able to voice those differences.

She did want to do it, and then when she was on the set I think she felt uncomfortable, and I didn't want to make anybody feel uncomfortable.

Fun isn't a word I think about so much.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.

The U.S. used to be perceived as the moral leader of the world, and we have absolutely lost that.

We're showing so much green, ... Everything from emerald green to puce, to chartreuse, to a real sort of hunter and forest and dark greens that we haven't seen in a long time.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

I hadn't shopped online. I don't think I was a contemporary person any longer - I hadn't been in a grocery store in years.

If my parents had discouraged me, I would have turned out very differently. They raised me in an open-minded, liberal environment.

It totally changes your walk. It's a different kind of sexy when you have on a lower heel, and I start always with the shoe.

It's the biggest game of my life. It's been a long road and a long time coming for us. I can't wait.

It's a neutral that goes with everything, ... and the caramels range really from real caramel all the way to sort of flesh, nude, almost a pink shade. And I think those neutrals, both on the foot and in the hand, look new this season.

But when I put my mind to something I can really focus on it.

When I'm in town, I sit in front of my computer, connected to the world. I need to go away in order to think.

When we began the war with Iraq, I made a statement that, although I was proud to be an American, I was embarrassed by the actions of our administration.

If you live in a small town, or a place where everyone is more or less the same, it's easy to dislike anyone you don't know.

I think we appear as the most morally corrupt country on the planet.

Both film and fashion are businesses where the audience doesn't feel or see the work that goes on behind the scenes.

But I hate to say it, because people are going to laugh when they read that Tom Ford thinks he might go into politics.

I worry about, consider, and question everything that I'm doing.

For the next few years I'll spend half the year in London and half the year in LA and Santa Fe.

L.A. is my American city.

When the youth of America gets together, amazing things happen.

Michael Moore's film has done a wonderful bit of PR for us all over the world.