Costumes Quotes

• I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Mom

• Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • Character
  • Movie

• My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • My Mom
  • Costumes
  • Pointer Sisters

• I'm an actor, so I like costumes.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Actor
  • Costumes

• You never know how stylish a movie is going to be and I think this movie has a great sense of style. The way that it is shot and our costumes and everything, it was just terrific.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Great
  • Thinking
  • Movie

• I design all of the costumes for my movies, actually.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Design
  • Movies
  • Costumes

• I want to be honest about the world that we live in, and sometimes my political persuasions come through in my work. Fashion can be really racist, looking at the clothes of other cultures as costumes. . . . That’s mundane and it’s old hat. Let’s break down some barriers.

  

  Alexander McQueen
  • World
  • Work
  • Live

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

  

  Willie Geist
  • Blue
  • Costumes
  • Blazers

• They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties.

  

  Norma Deloris Egstrom
  • Long
  • Party
  • Weddings

• 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.

  

  Stuart Immonen
  • Idea
  • Artists
  • Modern

• I love costumes in dance, I think it's very important. The clothes for dancing not only make you feel like somebody else, but it makes you move in a different way.

  

  Blanca Li
  • Dance
  • I Love
  • Movr

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

  

  Will Self
  • Kind
  • Actors
  • Wells

• I like the ritual of putting on my makeup, putting on my costume, doing my warm-ups. I eat the same dinner every night before I go on stage. I like having something that I can count on, something that feels stabilizing for me.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Night
  • Feels
  • Makeup

• As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look.

  

  Eric Daman
  • Important
  • Designer
  • Personalized

• We had to work out how the world was going to be divided up and, using props and costumes, we had to stage a ten minute play.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Work
  • Play
  • Costumes

• From about eight years old I was always making things on the sewing machine. Friends would see me making dresses and costumes, and I'd use difficult fabrics such as Lycra and elastic. But you know, my dad was creative and my brother is inventive too.

  

  Melissa George
  • Difficult
  • Creative
  • Dresses

• I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Believe
  • Chance
  • Acting

• The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • Differences
  • Computer
  • Performances

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

  

  Anne Edwards
  • Show
  • Public
  • Costumes

• I'm very good at living out of a suitcase. I love dressing up every morning. It feels like a costume, in some ways.

  

  Morgan Saylor
  • Morning
  • Dressing
  • Costumes

• You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the costumes on before you start and feel the weight of them, which is great. But then you're opposite some of the greatest actors in the world and away you go. You find your imagination takes over without you really even thinking about it.

  

  Ray Winstone
  • Thinking
  • Imagination
  • Games

• You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • Doubt
  • Halloween
  • Compliment

• The great thing about making picture books is that you can make absolutely anything you want happen. It's a bit like making a film, but you don't need lots of money for actors and costumes - you just need pens, paper, and your imagination.

  

  Mini Grey
  • Making
  • Absolutely
  • Costumes

• Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

  

  Nina Arianda
  • Genius
  • Broadway
  • Costumes

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