Costume Quotes

• When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

  

  Alice Walton
  • Song
  • Fails
  • Costume

• The costume the actors wear and if they're in stylized makeup and wigs in a live-action movie let's say, in a big costume drama, even though it does give them a sense of great ambience and environment and they kind of feel like they're in a great court, or if they feel like they're in the old west, or if they feel like they're being chased by hobbits or dinosaurs, it all comes down to the actors looking each other in the eye.

  

  Steven Spielberg
  • Movie
  • Actors
  • Makeup

• Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Suits
  • Ties
  • Asset

• I think that people are looking beyond the wig. I think they are saying, This isn't just a costume; there's a person behind this. If this costume, this character, this person has this kind courage? Why don't we share that?

  

  Alyssa Edwards
  • Character
  • Person
  • Costume

• Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Woman
  • Costume
  • Corsets

• I love period drama as much as the next person, but there's a tendency to let all of the costume get in the way of the people.

  

  Alex Lawther
  • People
  • Drama
  • Costume

• For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.

  

  Ernest Newman
  • Power
  • Creation
  • Expectation

• 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
  • Comfort
  • Importance
  • Costume

• The biggest surprise was a picture my mom sent me, just about the time that we were about to wrap up the book, of me as a 5-year-old dressed in my first Halloween costume that she made for me. I said, "What's this? I never saw this photo." And she said, "We made you this black-and-orange Halloween costume out of crepe paper" - we were too poor to have fabric back then - "and you wanted to go as the Queen Of Halloween." And I was like, "What?" And she said, "Yeah, the Princess Of Halloween, the Queen Of Halloween, something like that.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Mom
  • Picture
  • Halloween

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

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Happened
  • Grow Up
  • Wear

• Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • Fit
  • Spend
  • Working Out

• The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.

  

  Amelia Bloomer
  • Women
  • Wants
  • Costume

• I love to put on a wig, a costume, inhabit a different world and be called something different.

  

  Susan Egan
  • Different
  • Costume
  • Wig

• Once you put a mask on, if you allow it to, it can really transform you, and that's what a costume does.

  

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
  • Mask
  • Transform
  • Costume

• I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a job working as a wardrobe assistant for a theater company. I would dress the actors, fix their costumes, do the quick changes for them and all that stuff.

  

  Nico Santos
  • Company
  • Changes
  • Shakespeare

• I hope people will never stop dressing up as Harry Potter. It feels less to me like something you wear because you think it's a great costume idea and more like something you wear because you really like wearing your Hogwarts robe, and you really only get the one chance per year.

  

  Monica Hesse
  • People
  • Because
  • Wearing

• I've lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it's smaller and smaller. I'm feeling great. I'm putting in the work. I'm getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. 'Dancing' is my priority.

  

  Ricki Lake
  • Feeling
  • Everything
  • Putting

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

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Mystery
  • Costume

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