Costumes Quotes

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.

If you have a funny costume, you can't really wear it when you get older.

I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.

I try to get to know the actors as much as I can. I feel like I'm friends with them for starters and for a week or two, we rehearse when they're getting the costumes together.

I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.

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

In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.

If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

There are so many things I'd like to do. I'd really like to be in a period piece that takes place in old New York or old Hollywood and wear those costumes and that makeup.

And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.

If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting.

If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act.

It reminds me of how grandmother always had the right costume for me to wear. You wear the right outfit and you feel like the person you're pretending to be.

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.

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage.

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

I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs.

I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that.

Acting seems much easier than singing, in fact, because you are putting on a costume - whereas here you are taking everything off.

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

There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.

Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes.

I have a ton of cousins on my moms side of the family, and we would put on shows together all the time and put on costumes, and we even charged our parents money.

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.'

The costumes in museums are often not exhibited well. They look dead. It is much better to look at a painting by Bronzino than to go look at a Renaissance costume.

Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric.

So, did the costume come with a condom, or is that sold separately?

My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows.

Sometimes I steal costumes.

I have some extra costumes-" "No!" Ephialtes snapped, and for once Percy was in agreement.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

Glenn is going to bring a couple of sumo costumes down so we might have a dust-up in the technical area, that should make good TV

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare!

We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

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

A mask you ask? Optional I find!Masks lend appeal of a mysterious kind.

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