William Ivey Long Quotes

United States, Costume Designer
August 30, 1947

William Ivey Long Jr. is an American costume designer for stage and film. His most notable work includes the Broadway shows The Producers, Hairspray, Nine, Crazy for You, Grey Gardens, Young Frankenstein, Cinderella, Bullets Over Broadway and On the Twentieth Century.

My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down.

William Ivey Long
- Mind
- Running
- Angry
The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally.

William Ivey Long
- Ends
- Theater
- Tricks

I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book.

William Ivey Long
- Home
- Book
- Flirting
At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both.

William Ivey Long
- People
- Insecurity
- Twins