Iris Apfel Quotations

Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.

I don't happen to approve of plastic surgery. I think God put plastic surgeons on this earth for good reasons - people get burned or people might have a nose like Pinocchio and that has to be fixed. But to just chop yourself up to look a few years younger? You could come out looking like a Picasso picture.

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

Understated jewellery is not for me. It's too itsy-bitsy. My husband is lucky, as I've never had a yen for real jewels.

The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.

Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

Oh my God, I'm a walking advertisement for discounted shopping.

Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.