Costumes Quotes · Page 8

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love…

— Clemence Poesy

One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry…

— Roma Downey

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

— Mariana Klaveno

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

— Colleen Atwood

I'm so tired of the same old cliche costumes. When people dress up as animals, they always go as, like, lions and…

— Greg Gutfeld

They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically…

— Ogden Nash

For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period…

— Ernest Newman

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;…

— Gina Bellman

I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as…

— Yaya Han

The costumes are insane on 'Once Upon a Time.' It did influence my taking the job, the fact that not only would…

— Ginnifer Goodwin

When I was very small, I had that first-time-you-see-a-play experience, which immediately made me want to act, because it seemed like this…

— Edward Norton

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to…

— Zooey Deschanel

I try very hard not to take work home, but it can be tricky. Sometimes it feels as if you are wearing…

— Anne-Marie Duff

The tabloid that said that I dressed up as a medieval, like a sexy medieval something and that upset me more than…

— Jennifer Lawrence

I always wanted to be a fashion designer and I learned costume illustration in high school. That was an incredible high school.…

— Diana Ross

Fear plays an interesting role in our lives. How dare we let it motivate us. How dare we let it into our…

— James Spader

Drag for me is costume, and what I'm trying to do is, sometimes I'll go around and wear makeup in the streets,…

— Eddie Izzard

My identity is mostly as a songwriter and lyricist and singer. I also have a lot of production ideas but I have…

— Mirah

Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me…

— Gamal Abdel Nasser

We may agree, for example, that our societies must provide greater security for the individual; yet if all we succeed in producing…

— Robert Ardrey

Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark…

— Quentin Tarantino

For each human being there is an optimum ratio between change and stasis. Too little change, he grows bored. Too little stability,…

— Larry Niven

I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere,…

— Dave Eggers

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person…

— Molly Parker

Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They…

— Dana Gould

I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they…

— January Jones

You put funny people in funny costumes and paint them green and we could talk about anything we wanted to, because that…

— Majel Barrett

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

— Santigold

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to…

— John Malkovich

The joy of a period film is that you're taken to another world. The costumes determine the way you move, and then…

— Rhys Ifans

I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious…

— Lewis Carroll

'Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky…

— Camille Paglia

I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into…

— Kristen Bell

I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody…

— Florence Welch

There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear.…

— Siri Hustvedt

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

— Anonymous

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…

— Vanessa Kirby

I love people who expect me to wear great, feathery costumes- and I do it. It's like an actor getting into his…

— Elton John

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail.…

— Ellie Goulding

I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships…

— Gary Oldman