Costumes Quotations

My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.

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.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

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.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires and fireworks... I think that made Halloween seem preferable. The idea of having pumpkins and costumes and parties seemed much more appealing than burning down your neighborhood.

I love De la Renta. I love CoSTUME National; I think they're just incredible. And I love Marc Jacobs, too - they're also great, just a great brand.

When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

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.

I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes.

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.'

You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

I know I'm as comfortable doing period as I am contemporary. I suppose we grow up with it in a sense, in the theater. We get to put on costumes and play a lot of period dramas or plays so we're exposed to it a little bit more I think because of our theatrical background.

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

I think supporting casts in comics are missing. I think a lot of the time in comics, all we have are people in costumes talking to other people in costumes, superheroes talking to superheroes and supervillains, and that's it.

And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

I was really a spoiled brat when I was a kid skating. Meals are cooked for you, you are driven to the rink, they make costumes for you. Your parents sit around and watch admiringly while you skate. You don't have to think about anything but skating. You're just plain spoiled.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I read and watch movies. I can't go to the movie theater much anymore, though, because I get recognized. It's worse sometimes if I wear a costume and try not to get recognized. I watch most of my films on airplanes

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

It's great fun that my grandkids get to see the costumes in 'Alice in Wonderland' or a doll with grandma's dress, but then they also let me know they're bummed I didn't do any of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies.

I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good.

You won't see me at a microphone singing and tapping my foot. I spend a lot of money on sets, costumes and sound. I believe people deserve a show. I'm a singer, musician, dancer. I work hard, and I'm soaking wet when I come off.

Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement.

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.

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.

Being queer you're supposed to adore figure skating. It's a sport, not an art. I love the costumes and hate the music and of course I worship Johnny Weir because so does he. Also he's real. It's a full gay thing and it always has been.

I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh.

I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it.

I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds. I would never lie and say I don't think about it, but I don't think about it on a daily basis. I love my body. I don't like wearing clothes that hide or cover it. I love wearing costumes that show it off.

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would I be horseback riding and sword fighting and traipsing through the woods but I would be doing all those things in insane, medieval garb.

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.

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

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.

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes.

I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.

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.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

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.

I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes.

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

We have so many costumes now we have a 12-by-12 building just for them.

When you're acting, it's a fantasy already; maybe it's the costumes - I love it. It's so fun.

Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that.

She was not only an actress but worked in every area of theatre, designing costumes and set pieces.

Some artists are able to pull off a very form-fitting, painted-on look that's very modern, but I have actually come around to embracing the idea that that these costumes are more like athletic uniforms than high-tech skin suits.

Obviously, Halloween is our busiest time of year. It's normally when we do our biggest volume of business. But once the storm hit we lost power. We used generators at our warehouse to run four FedEx computers to prepare shipments. We paid to upgrade all of our orders to Next Day FedEx delivery to get costumes to people in time for Halloween.

Only the rare individual will turn his full attention towards that divinity. Most people will see only the physical appearance of the chariot, its decorations and other such things as the fine raiment put on the sacred image inside, the costumes worn by the dancers and musicians, and all the sound and color of the festivities.

One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times.

I would say 50 percent of our costumes are exclusive. We can almost make anything. We also order from a multitude of buying shows.

I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them.

I loved hanging around movie sets when I was a kid," she told the Orange County Register. "I loved the whole world. I loved the way a movie crew becomes an extended family. And I loved the idea of dressing up in costumes and playing a character. I remember being moved by great performances, and often those performances where given by my mother, so I guess you could say she influenced me in that way.

I can't remember any of the films I've done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt - that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that.

I don't want costumes and makeup between me and the audience - I want more direct communication. There's something for me about being honest on stage, and I'm at my most honest when I'm behind a piano. So I prefer my concert performances.

I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week.

If you abandoned yourself to that world and that character and that period surrounded by extras in the same period clothing and costumes and listening to that music all the time, you give in and you let that music become a part of your soul. Then you can live it and breathe it, which is really what I was trying to do.

He (Holbrook) said he has one of the first Mark Twain costumes he wore on stage and was saving it until The Smithsonian called. We said we could find a place for it until they do.

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood.

Gujarat is truly vibrant. Be it handicrafts, folk music, art, costumes or food - the state offers the best of everything.

I think we have beautiful costumes that are very elegant.

Pimps and hookers are always popular Halloween costumes for adults.

I'm still amazed how after the actors came on in their costumes how accurate it all looked. Basically we designed the layout of the props on the streets.

Mick asked where that left him, ... James replied, 'Dad, you wear makeup, you wear funny costumes and you wiggle your bum on stage in front of thousands of people. What do you think it makes you?'

Those are hard films to make, medieval films. Nobody will put a lot of cash into it, but it needs a lot of money because of sets and costumes and stuff. I really, really wanted to make that film just because I knew it would be a big challenge, and I also knew that I wanted to create a world that was my world and it wasn't a world based on what we all know.

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.

Get my swan costume ready.

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.

A good style fits like a good costume.

Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.

I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.'

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

We think the 'livestock show' will make it fun for our exhibitors and the public. Costumes will be allowed, but are not required,

Well yeah, and I must tell you the difference between... we wore costumes. And those costumes were form fitting. They don't wear costumes.

What I want to explore is Ken Jennings as Peter Parker or Clark Kent, Spider-Man or Superman -- the normal man-superhero parallax, the normal, meek guy who, put in a competitive situation, becomes a killer. Think 'Price Is Right' with games of skill and intelligence in a multi-game format. Explore Ken against . . . the rest of the world and in national costumes when we can get it.

What does homophobia look like when it's stripped bare of fancy costumes like family values and tradition? It looks like that group of strange, angry people who protest at the funerals of U.S. soldiers who've died fighting for our country.