Olivier Theyskens quote: "I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design."

I didn't understand the advantages of staying active until I was about 27.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

In fashion, we don't often know the prices. We don't have time to go into the stores.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

The only shoes that look futuristic are Crocs, but they would be terrible to use in a futuristic mov...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

Today there are more things you can wear for the same occasions. I still like this idea of the perfe...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I am not a designer that buys vintage to be inspired.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's p...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not nece...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I could live naked... I love it.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view o...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

Art is the way people see things, and I think it's great when individuals can find in fashion so...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I don't think couture will die. But it should have no pretension that it will conquer the world....
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

What is funny is when you do a futuristic movie, you immediately get to be fashionable because you&#...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I haven't made many wedding dresses. It's a dress very, very important for the girl; it'...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

When Princess Diana got married, I was a very little kid, I think. I remember her dress, and I found...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

My first collection was made from sheets that my grandmother, who lived in Normandy, had been collec...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

Personally, I have had sometimes moments where I thought my idea behind the idea of a collection - t...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

What is sure is that the satellite view of our world and its evolution is now a common reality.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

The aim of being a good designer is to have an influence. If you design furniture or lifestyle, you ...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

A black dress is beautiful! It's a good choice. It could be the wrong choice at certain events o...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

When I was very young, I wanted to be a girl. I was jealous that girls got to be princesses and wear...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I like to be lazy. I do like to be busy and really active, but when that's done, you can be sure...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don&#...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for t...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I am curious to see what the others do. I was stressed. I wanted to know if it was too much like wha...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

It may sound stupid, but I have always loved those water lilies.
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

I find him very enlightening. If there is something inspiring you -- if it's an adventure with H&M -...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

Everything I do, I do out of instinct. I love to show shapes. I like to work around the waist, the h...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and...
OLIVIER THEYSKENS

This scandal will get bigger before its finished.
LEO THEYSKENS

It will absolutely not stop here. There are other clubs, players and individuals involved.
LEO THEYSKENS

Our sponsors want to distance themselves from us and we have to respect that. But it has now cost us...
LEO THEYSKENS

We just want to try and move forward in a positive fashion and get ourselves up the table. But in an...
LEO THEYSKENS

I am not saying the clubs are completely at fault but the players and the others most definitely yes...
LEO THEYSKENS

The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be f...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.
OLIVIER SARKOZY

No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical te...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

When you write a script, you always think about what your heart is asking.
OLIVIER MEGATON

I like to discover new things.
OLIVIER MEGATON

When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide ...
OLIVIER MEGATON

To be on the set with the actors, with the location, every day changes; every day something can go w...
OLIVIER MEGATON

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.
OLIVIER MEGATON

I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
OLIVIER MEGATON

People who watch 'Transporter' are maybe asking a little less about reality, being serious, ...
OLIVIER MEGATON

I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned an...
OLIVIER MEGATON

I'm not a fan of action movies.
OLIVIER MEGATON

Action movies today are going to so fast, you can't say you're going to do everything faster...
OLIVIER MEGATON

The most difficult thing to do is drama.
OLIVIER MEGATON

I'm a painter. I was a graffiti artist, and I painted all over the world.
OLIVIER MEGATON

My father was champion of North Africa and he beat the European champ. He was very good, a professio...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I don't feel restricted by the language: I feel more free.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exa...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

In Hollywood, you can live alongside very famous but still incredibly boring people. I've never ...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

Love is based on imagination.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

People sometimes recognize me here, but they are very nice.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

But when you work with the director and the real person who is playing opposite you, it changes ever...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

It's like all the signs were telling me that I shouldn't be a boxer, so I quit.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

There are two smells that I can recognize right away. The smell of the boxing ring and the smell of ...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I don't have goals in life.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I'll always be a foreigner.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this ...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

Sometimes you have to laugh about what gets published; sometimes it's annoying, but in general I...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This perso...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

Imagination creates some big monsters.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay,...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

And I think it is the genius of actors to be able to escape whatever people are expecting of them. O...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six ye...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. Yo...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

It's nice to have some distance with your family. As long as you're closer to them by love.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I don't like the actors to work together beforehand. I trust my intuition, and I like when the a...
OLIVIER DAHAN

The difficulty with telling stories about real people is you have to find a way of mixing yourself i...
OLIVIER DAHAN

I don't read the critics.
OLIVIER DAHAN

Cannes is a sort of gladiators' arena, and that's the fun part of it. When you accept to com...
OLIVIER DAHAN

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.
OLIVIER DAHAN

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.
OLIVIER WEBER

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no ...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

The office of drama is to exercise, possibly to exhaust, human emotions. The purpose of comedy is to...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

We have all, at one time or another, been performers, and many of us still are - politicians, playbo...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten t...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
LAURENCE OLIVIER

For at the end of the day, what matters is never the wine, it's always the moment; it's always the p...
OLIVIER MAGNY

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

I'd like people to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I thi...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

'Taken' is a really difficult project because it was a big surprise for everybody.
OLIVIER MEGATON

Especially on 'Taken,' 'Taken' was not a big success the day of its release. It was ...
OLIVIER MEGATON

I'm French - it's less important. Meaning, I remain a Frenchman in America, but I adapt to A...
OLIVIER MARTINEZ

Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved, For ...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

It was all black in the plane. There was no more light, nothing.
OLIVIER DUBOIS

I was not feeling too bad. Andy was in worse shape than me in the fifth. I think I was really unluck...
OLIVIER ROCHUS

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER

We sent plain-clothes officers to see if it was the right man we were looking for. Of course, we had...
OLIVIER LAPOINTE

When we arrived, we found two people that were injured by sharp weapons. One of them was a man aged ...
OLIVIER LAPOINTE

It was obvious there was nothing to be done. They were not even sent to hospital.
OLIVIER LAPOINTE

For him, there was nothing that was not normal. He asked for a product that was given to him, and he...
OLIVIER LAPOINTE

Firefighters found two men who were unfortunately unconscious and in one case the death was confirme...
OLIVIER LAPOINTE

He went to buy cigarettes, went to the gas station, paid for them. Two men accepted the money.
OLIVIER LAPOINTE

Business confidence has not advanced in France for three months and the gap in relation to Germany i...
OLIVIER GASNIER

Given how remarkably strong some sectors were last month seasonally adjusted, IT was a little bit di...
ROBERT OLIVIER

La gloire, c'est comme la gouache, ça prend très vite puis ça part à la première goutte de plui...
OLIVIER WEBER

Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l'âme vois-tu, la peinture n'est que le reflet de ce chagrin, an...
OLIVIER WEBER

He said aloud what everybody everywhere now says.
OLIVIER ROY

We've turned into a possession team. That's what good teams do. To be honest, we learned that from S...
KATHY OLIVIER

Of course, there's only one person who stabbed the victim. They were not all holding the knife. But ...
OLIVIER LAPOINTE

If you are a youngster in the French suburbs, your mates are second-generation Muslim immigrants and...
OLIVIER ROY

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no ...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

Ascension He has gone away, the Well-Beloved, For our sake! He is risen, the Well-Beloved, For our s...
OLIVIER MESSIAEN

It is the best individual rise in some time.
ROBERT OLIVIER

The annual trend in January has been to fall and this year has been better, so it's a healthier star...
ROBERT OLIVIER

Ser moderno é tratar de sabotar os lugares-comuns de seu tempo. Programa complexo: o nosso tende a ...
OLIVIER ROLIN

We don't want to produce grapes. We want to answer the scientific question of whether this transgeni...
OLIVIER LEMAIRE

'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

We're quite confident now that the (Kyoto) protocol is saved.
OLIVIER DELEUZE

Stephen Tennant is the most sparkling talker who ever comes to my house, and perhaps the most amusin...
EDITH OLIVIER

Il n’est pire exil que celui du coeur
OLIVIER WEBER

It takes wearing your heart on your sleeve to a whole new level.
MARC OLIVIER

You wouldn't let a salesman in, but the message was allowed in through the radio.
MARC OLIVIER

The one who has the remote has the power.
MARC OLIVIER

I can't say enough about what's she's done for this conference. I've always looked up to her. She wa...
KATHY OLIVIER

Life on the road, it's not fun in the Pac-10. We're out of sync right now and Stanford is playing we...
KATHY OLIVIER

Noelle does so many positive things. She's a young lady who just acts like a champion, during good t...
KATHY OLIVIER

Lisa is playing the best I've ever seen her play. She's doing that by taking better shots, and her s...
KATHY OLIVIER

Those kids don't play like freshmen. They want the ball and don't shy away from contact.
KATHY OLIVIER

Brooke is a force inside and we didn't feel like single-coverage was going to do the job. In the fir...
KATHY OLIVIER

I don't think they are vulnerable at all. We were out of sync today and Stanford looked very comfort...
KATHY OLIVIER

Brooke is a force inside. We didn't feel like single coverage would do the job.
KATHY OLIVIER

Brooke is a force inside. We didn't feel like single coverage would do the job. She didn't get that ...
KATHY OLIVIER

I have a very offensive-minded team. They light up when they make that pass, and they light up when ...
KATHY OLIVIER

The moment of truth is approaching.
OLIVIER DELEUZE

The drop in industrial capital goods is a disappointment - I hope it's just an accident.
OLIVIER GASNIER

Thirty years ago, you joined the Maoists, the Trotskyists, the far left, the Baader group, Action Di...
OLIVIER ROY

He was just too good. If you are going to beat him, you have to beat him in the first round. He gets...
OLIVIER ROCHUS

Surely we have always acted; it is an instinct inherent in all of us. Some of us are better at it th...
LAURENCE OLIVIER

No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER

I have to act to live.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER

Don't waste your time striving for perfection, instead, strive for excellence -- doing your best.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
SIR LAURENCE OLIVIER

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

Autograph-hunting is the most unattractive manifestation of sex-starved curiosity.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic d...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

Without acting I cannot breathe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperam...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

I like Paris. My problem is I don't like Parisians."
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

The actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

Living is strife and torment, disappointment and love and sacrifice, golden sunsets and black storms...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

If I wasn't an actor, I think I'd have gone mad. You have to have extra voltage, some extra temperam...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

It's just like a nursery game of make-believe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

Acting is illusion, as much illusion as magic is, and not so much a matter of being real.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shak...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

We ape, we mimic, we mock. We act.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

Without acting I cannot breathe.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

What is acting but lying and what is good lying but convincing lying?
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

I don't know what is better than the work that is given to the actor - to teach the human heart the ...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

I believe in the theater; I believe in it as the first glamorizer of thought. It restores dramatic d...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
SIR LAWRENCE OLIVIER

My dear boy, why don't you try acting? (on the set of 'Marathon Man', to Dustin Hoffman, who had ann...
LAURENCE OLIVIER SIR

It should be said that my parents had married for love. The affection and devotion they had shared w...
OLIVIER A. BLANCHARD

We're fragile things, Harb. It doesn't look like it but we are. We're here one minute, and just like...
OLIVIER A. BLANCHARD

Use your weaknesses; aspire to the strength.
LAURENCE OLIVIER, SIR

I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

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I am interested in the idea of 'taste.' And by 'taste,' I mean opinion, inspiration and the craft of creating a personality through fabric and design.

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