Costumes Quotes

• 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

  Character, First Impression, Doe

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• The first time I met Prince he invented me to his birthday party in Minneapolis. It was a costume party and I came as a beatnik - a beret and a charcoal goatee. He was dressed like an executioner. I talked to him for awhile and he didn't know who I was, and when I told him he was real surprised.

  Paul Reubens

  Real, Party, Firsts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I need a costume to be convinced that I'm somebody else. Otherwise, it's just me. It's just Amy saying lines. I haven't really become somebody else. And what's the fun in that?

  Amy Sedaris

  Fun, Needs, Amy

  "Amy Sedaris: The Believer Interview". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March, 2004.

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• 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.

  Isla Fisher

  Real, Shy, Feels

  "Isla Fisher Talks Confessions of a Shopaholic". Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment interview, movieweb.com. June 29, 2009.

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

  Sam Riley

  Character, Huge

  Source: collider.com

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

  Joan Chen

  Character, Helping, Feels

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• When you put your costume on and you get your hair and your makeup done [for a role] and you stare in the mirror you feel like a different person.

  Michael Shannon

  Makeup, Mirrors, Hair

  Source: variety.com

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• Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Halloween, Autumn

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• When you look at a wall spotted with stains...you may discover a resemblance to various landscapes, beautiful with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees. Or again, you may see battles and figures in action, or strange faces and costumes, and an endless variety of objects which you could reduce to complete and well-drawn figures.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Beautiful, Wall, Rocks

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• 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.

  John Boyne

  Grandmother, Pretending, Feels

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• And costume is so important for an actor. It absolutely helps to get into character; it's the closest thing to you, it touches you. Some actors like to go into make-up and then put their clothes on, but I like to dress first; that's my routine.

  Gary Oldman

  Character, Clothes, Important

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• Sometimes I steal costumes.

  Rich Fulcher

  Sometimes, Stealing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Fashion, Believe, Life Is Too Short

  Stephanie Perkins (2014). “Lola and the Boy Next Door”, p.9, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

  Alessandro Nivola

  Believe, Imagination, Helping

  "Alessandro Nivola Talks Janie Jones and Redemption". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 01, 2011.

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

  Kevin Spacey

  Character, Able, Ends

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• Don't forget that costumes, like dreams, are symbolic communication. Dreams teach us that a language for everything exists - for every object, every color worn, every clothing detail. Hence, costumes provide an aesthetic objectification that helps to tell the character's story.

  Federico Fellini

  Dream, Communication, Character

  Federico Fellini, Bert Cardullo (2006). “Federico Fellini: Interviews”, p.164, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• [Jack Sparrow]'s a blast to play. I'll be in a deep, dark depression saying goodbye to him. I'll keep the costume and just prance around the house, entertain the kids....I mean, at a certain point, the madness must stop, but for the moment, I can't say that he's done.

  Johnny Depp

  Goodbye, Mean, Kids

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• Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?

  Bill Watterson

  Kids, Boys, Scary

  "It's a Magical World". Book by Bill Watterson, October 1996.

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

  Jane Levy

  Character, Body, Turns

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• Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Character, Brain, Different

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• In a life where waking hours are draped in the costume of horrid nightmare, where reality has suddenly become questionable, it's easy to be scared by dreams.

  Scott Sigler

  Dream, Reality, Waking

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• Just as people can watch spellbound a circus artist tumbling through the air in a phosphorized costume, so they can listen to a preacher who uses the Word of God to draw attention to himself. But a sensational preacher stimulates the senses and leaves the spirit untouched. Instead of being the way to God, his 'being different' gets in the way.

  Henri Nouwen

  Artist, Air, People

  "The Search For Applause" by Henri Nouwen, www.christianitytoday.com. 1984.

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

  Mary Woronov

  Clothes, Personality, Drug

  Mary Woronov (2000). “Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory”, Serpents Tail

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• In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

  Warwick Davis

  Skills, Needs, Body

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 07, 2001.

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• Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.

  Morgan Freeman

  Character, Cutting, Ties

  "Morgan Freeman Talks OBLIVION, Working with Tom Cruise, Being Drawn to Sci-Fi and Technology, Shooting a Dual .50 Caliber Machine Gun and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. April 16, 2013.

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