Costumes famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
-
I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
-- Adam Lambert -
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long.
-- Adam Savage -
A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting
-- Alan Ladd -
I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
-- Alessandro Nivola -
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance
-- Amelia Bloomer -
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.
-- Amelia Bloomer -
A good style fits like a good costume.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes.
-- Anais Nin -
Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.
-- Anna Held -
I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
-- Benedict Cumberbatch -
My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.
-- Brenda Holloway -
We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.
-- Bryan Batt -
My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.
-- Burt Ward -
The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.
-- Carl B. Hamilton -
I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.
-- Cassandra Peterson -
No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya
-- Cate Tiernan -
I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good.
-- Chris Hemsworth -
This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.
-- Christina Ricci -
A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.
-- Clemence Poesy -
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu
-- Coco Chanel -
I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
-- Dirk Benedict -
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
-- Douglas Coupland -
If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation.
-- Ernest Newman -
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.
-- Eugene Delacroix -
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
-- Gary Cole -
History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.
-- George Eliot -
Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.
-- Ginnifer Goodwin -
It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.
-- Hugh Laurie -
And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!
-- Ioan Gruffudd -
Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.
-- Irving Kaufman -
Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.
-- Jack Donovan -
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.
-- Jaime Winstone -
Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.
-- Jane Levy -
When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - bedraggled.
-- Jean Patou -
Dave and Tate were dressed with equal heinousness. More black leather, chains, and whips. Either Don’s staff truly had costumes for all possible occasions on hand, or someone at wardrobe had a lot of explaining to do.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.
-- Jeanne Moreau -
I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom.
-- Jessica Lange -
He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume.
-- Jim Benton -
It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.
-- John Boyne -
Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.
-- John Malkovich -
I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.
-- Johnny Weir -
Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.
-- Johnny Weir -
I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.
-- Josie Maran -
I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.
-- Julia Sawalha -
There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.
-- Julianne Hough -
I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.
-- Kami Garcia -
For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.
-- Katherine Dunham -
All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
-- Keira Knightley -
I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.
-- Kelly Hu -
I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.
-- Lee Meriwether -
With each shimmy, the bugle beads on their scandalously revealing costumes swung and shook. It was the sort of display Evie knew her mother would have found appalling—an example of the moral decay of the young generation. It was sexual and dangerous and thrilling, and Evie wanted more of it.
-- Libba Bray -
I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.
-- Louise Glück -
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.
-- Lucy Liu -
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
-- Mary Schmich -
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
-- Mason Cooley -
I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.
-- Max Irons -
I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'
-- Melissa McCarthy -
In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.
-- Molly Parker -
There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
-- Morgan Freeman -
It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.
-- Nancy Kerrigan -
Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.
-- Orson Scott Card -
It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.
-- Peter Mayhew -
I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.
-- Prince Harry -
When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
-- Rachel Roy -
So, did the costume come with a condom, or is that sold separately?
-- Rachel Vincent -
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.
-- Ram Dass -
I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.
-- Ray Toro -
All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.
-- Robert Fulghum -
When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
-- Sam Walton -
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work.
-- Stephen Daldry -
As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.
-- Steve Coogan -
I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
-- Tamsin Egerton -
I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.
-- Tommy Tune -
I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
-- Verne Troyer -
Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
-- Victoria Wood -
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness
-- Walter Benjamin -
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
-- Warwick Davis -
When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.
-- Willie Geist -
I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.'
-- Conan O'Brien -
I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.
-- Ian Astbury -
I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.
-- Loretta Lux -
I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.
-- Lou Doillon -
Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.
-- Lou Doillon -
There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.
-- Mariana Klaveno -
Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.
-- Truth Hurts -
I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were.
-- Vanessa Kirby -
We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.
-- Vincent Paronnaud -
I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.
-- Alexandra Byrne -
For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.
-- Sam Riley -
The costumes, the light rigs and the effects are seamlessly joined. I'm kind of bummed that I don't get the experience that you get with just watching it cold. By the time we'd seen all the visuals put together, I'd sort of become used to that world. It's still pretty impressive.
-- James Frain -
It’s tricky when you’re doing a recording, because the only weapon you have is your voice and the delivery of that voice. You don’t have a gesture or a facial expression, there are no costumes or set pieces. Everything needs to be present in the voice.
-- Joyce DiDonato
