Costumes Quotes

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

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

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.

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

They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

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

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

Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.

In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

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

Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut??

Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them.

Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty.

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

I always like to be somebody scary. When I was little, my mom used to make our costumes. She's really creative and would make us great costumes without having to spend a lot.

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.

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.

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.

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

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

For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty vampire.

Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes.

A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words.

Costumes are so much better than clothes. They're like drugs, they change your personality.

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes

I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.

My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram.

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

My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.

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.

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 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.

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

No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya

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

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.

I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them.

For 'Singin' in the Rain,' I bought most of the costumes - the 'Fit as a Fiddle' costumes and the 'Make Them Laugh' Donald O'Connor outfits and the 'Good Morning, Good Morning' clothes we danced in.

An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes.

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.

I'm definitely excited about roles where I get to wear cool costumes. I love Game of Thrones, and would love to do something like that. I'm totally a dork.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.