For a long time I was looking for my perfect equilibrium, my mojo. And now I think I'm getting there: I've found my customer, my silhouette, my cut.
I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.
I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.
I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.
I wake up at about the same time every day. I sleep well and wake without an alarm clock.
People are always surprised when they spend time with my children by how normal they are. They're polite. They're well mannered. They're very down to earth, in a way.
One of my biggest fears - maybe my biggest weakness as a Christian - is that I have a hard time going up to a stranger and talking to them about Jesus.
In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or immunity, but every biological structure and function because, ultimately, no one could explain how biological processes occurred.
The biggest lesson that I've learned is that fashion is this tightrope where you have to be consistent but inconsistent. You need the connective thread but at the same time you need a sense of surprise.
I'm very used to working with first time actors - you can just look back at 'E.T.' with Drew Barrymore, and Christian Bale from 'Empire of the Sun,' who'd never made a movie before.
We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is the natural way for us to live, and we're suddenly living in this profoundly unnatural way, and we're still in the process of adapting to it and worki...
I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.
It is extremely difficult to say how long the process actually took to finally achieve my fragrance, Boudoir, because there was a lot of time waiting around for other people.
[subtitled version] Christian Klingenfeldt: I've just never really understood why you did it. Faderen: It was all you were good for.
Christian: The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
Christian and Satine: Come what may, I will love you until my dying day.
Christian: Tell me the truth. Satine: The truth? The truth is that I am the Hindu courtesan... and I choose the maharajah.
Satine: [to Christian] On opening night I have to sleep with the Duke, and the jealousy will drive you mad.
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
As an adult (after college) and as an artist I thought about what was real, what sustained me - it was Christian Science. I was using that when I didn't know it. Saying yes to the Light and your better instinct.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
