Character Quote by Patricia Norris

Clothing is the first step to building a character.

— Sylvester Stallone

Clothes have become too important and films are saturated with fashion. So you find yourself wearing designer clothes that aren't relevant to your character.…

— Liv Tyler

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

— Katherine Waterston

The costume designer designing clothes that helped the comedy in The Proposal, that sold the character. Each and every detail was so perfectly thought…

— Sandra Bullock

My favorite part about costume designing is the artistry of the job. You meet with a director and a visionary to discuss ideas. You…

— Ruth E. Carter

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are…

— Edith Head

Clothing reveals what a character is trying to project as well as what they're giving away about themselves without even realizing it: their socioeconomic…

— Camille Perri

People order clothes out of a catalogue, put it on an actor and everything is generic.

— Sandra Bullock

Character is the salesperson

— George Madison Adams

If you were to sell your character, would you get full retail or would it go for a bargain-basement price?

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr

I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's…

— Jeff Bridges

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

— Sophie McShera