Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

I'm not going to go to the local theater to spend $12... when I can get a screening copy of a film. I don't get screeners myself, but I can borrow from my friends or go to their house to watch.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

Why spend money on movies when you can spend it on gas? Or dry cleaning? Or groceries?

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

Waiting in line for something mundane is very boring. Waiting for my doctor to see me and waiting for my dentist to see me, yes, that is boring.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

I suppose the most daring thing I've ever done is try to water ski. And that was not successful.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

I only take risks in couture, but I don't take risks in athleticism.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

Valentino made my day suit for the wedding of Paloma Picasso in Paris.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

If you're going to be a model, what's going to get you the job on a go-see and makes you stand out, it might not be your lipstick or your portfolio or what you're wearing, it might come from your core being.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

I don't tear down. I prefer to build up.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

In my day you didn't speak until spoken to.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

Fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez was a major part of my early career.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

I watch Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann, and Chris Matthews. That's what I watch every night. By the time I've watched them, I don't have time to watch reality TV shows.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

I think it's important that models be healthy.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

The happiest moments of my childhood were spent on my grandmother's front porch in Durham, N.C., or at her sister's farmhouse in Orange County, where chickens paraded outside the kitchen's screen door and hams were cured in the smokehouse.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

It's incorrect to assume you can be a fashion editor because you blog, if you don't have experience to look at fashion in a professional way.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

In the heyday of the Oscars, there were electric sparks flying. When Cher went in her fabulous Bob Mackie dress and her Mohawk, and Bjoerk with her swan dress. Then we thought it was bad taste; now I think it should have been the best dress because she stood out.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

People need to be edited; life needs to be edited. I need to be edited.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

Snooki and Honey Boo Boo. These are big celebrities in the U.S. You want to throw up.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

On 9/11, that morning, I was in a Christian Dior Couture appointment at the Hotel Pierre.

Andre Leon Talley
Andre Leon Talley

Wearing clothes should be a personal narrative of emotion. I always respond to fashion in an emotional way.