Isaac Mizrahi: What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

The question

What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

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Isaac Mizrahi

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.

The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 5 April 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

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Catherine O’Hara

I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 November 2013 source ↗

Judd Apatow

Watching my wife and children eat.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2009 source ↗

Daniel Radcliffe

Eating breakfast foods at a time of the day other than breakfast. Pancakes for dinner—I’m happy.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 18 April 2014 source ↗

Barack Obama 44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008

When I feel as if the people closest to me are happy and healthy and I'm connected with them, and when I feel as if I'm doing things that are making other people better and happy, then I feel real good. That's when I'm at my peak.

Recorded Barbara Walters, ABC News 20/20, broadcast 23 December 2011, 22 December 2011 source ↗