I gotta do some sad scenes. Why, I never tried to make anybody cry in my life! And I go 'round all… — Buster Keaton Copy Share Image
I was just disciplined. I knew I had to get back into shape after six weeks for the film Goal II, but… — Anna Friel Copy Share Image
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night. — Joyce Grenfell Copy Share Image
Call me Buffy. I’m even blond, but don’t ask me to wear a halter top. Or corset. — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
Do you know that cats can't wear corsets? They can't stand! Not at all! They just fall over. I know because I… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
“The bra market took off in 1917 when the U.S. War Industries Board called on women to make the switch from corsets… — Alex Palmer Copy Share Image
“Her posture was as impeccable as any debutante, making me wonder if the nuns wore corsets under those voluminous black habits. I… — Anna Lee Huber Copy Share Image
Sales of corsets doubled between 1948 and 1958, possibly as part of the process of putting women back into the box, as… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“I can't breathe. I'm joing the Rational Dress Society the very moment we are back in London,and I fully intend to leave… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
I love all the old pictures - of spanking and Bettie Page and corsets. But you can't do spanking in fashion, so… — Ellen von Unwerth Copy Share Image
I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I… — Kate Beckinsale Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers… — Laura Moriarty Copy Share Image
I am a pig! I love to eat! i will eat anything! If you put it front of me, I will put… — Manila Luzon Copy Share Image
Women's scars and rituals involved beauty (piercing ears and noses, binding feet, and wearing corsets); men's involved protecting women. In cultures in… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
Everything is important, but there is a weight to these big or expected things and then there is the logistics of them… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
What's really interesting is when you get a brand-new wave that has no connection to anything else. It always reflects society. The… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I have always been drawn to designing fashions that are rebellious, like black leather jackets on suburban kinds, a corset dress, punk,… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
“A study of fifty women conducted in 1887 revealed that the corset forcibly contracted their waists by anywhere between two and a… — Joshua Zeitz Copy Share Image
I have a terrible weakness for collecting snatches of other people's conversations, and occasionally I'm rewarded with unusual fragments of knowledge. My… — Peter Mayle Copy Share Image
I realised that since I was a child I wanted to be an actress just to dress up in big fabrics and… — Clemence Poesy Copy Share Image
Wearing a real corset doesn't make you look thin! It just makes you look like you're going to pass out! Also it… — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the 'simple little black dress,' the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
The space program caused so much future-thinking in culture. People who couldn't go to the Moon were building space-fantasy chairs and corsets… — Aleksandra Mir Copy Share Image