Costumes Quotes - Page 3

• Any time you talk about the look of the film, it's not just the director and the director of photography. You have to include the costume designer and the production designer.

  Spike Lee

  Photography, Directors, Looks

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• Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Halloween, Holiday, My Favorite

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.

  Tracy Chapman

  Couple, Halloween, Party

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• I like that totally mixed up kind of eclectic group of personal props and bits of costume and I think the fun of doing that is where I was very lucky with Doctor Who.

  Lalla Ward

  Fun, Thinking, Doctors

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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 and space costumes, things like that.

  Gary Oldman

  Space, Fans, Fiction

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• I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Character, Artist, Film

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• I'm glad I was born when I was. My time was the golden age of variety. If I were starting out again now, maybe things would happen for me, but it certainly would not be on a variety show with 28 musicians, 12 dancers, two major guest stars, 50 costumes a week by Bob Mackie - the networks just wouldn't spend the money today.

  Carol Burnett

  Stars, Two, Dancer

  "Comedian Carol Burnett dishes". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 11, 2010.

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• They know they're going to look beautiful, and I don't think women should look like costumes. They shouldn't look like fashion victims.

  Ralph Lauren

  Beautiful, Fashion, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

  Brenda Blethyn

  Drama, Theatre, Done

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• I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

  Stephen Sondheim

  Believe, Giving, Acting

  "Maestro of Broadway". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. July 5, 2005.

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• Without my husband's costumes I wouldn't have known how to accomplish what I saw in my own mind's eyes for choreography. And then seeing our choreography and knowing the background of it I am sure helped my husband a great deal with what he designed for us.

  Katherine Dunham

  Husband, Eye, Knowing

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• We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.

  Ann Hood

  Girl, Mother, Brother

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• I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday.

  Amy Poehler

  Hate, Halloween, Holiday

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• My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

  Burt Ward

  Book, Kids, Robins

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• I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Looks, Funny Halloween, Said

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• The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Nature, Majestic Beauty, Shapes

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “Essays, letters from abroad, translations and fragments, ed. by mrs. Shelley”, p.35

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• I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

  Johnny Weir

  Fall, Design, Influence

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• Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.

  Vera Wang

  Fashion, Night, Challenges

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• They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

  Owen Hart

  Mind, Together, Glitter

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• For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Haiti, we had not done that before in exactly this form and we had to have costumes for it.

  Katherine Dunham

  Done, Haiti, Kind

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• A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

  Alan Ladd

  Acting, Building, Producers

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• You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

  Boris Vallejo

  Clothes, Knowing, Bored

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• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  Lusia Strus

  Respect, Believe, Character

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• Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.

  Cassandra Peterson

  Character, Eight, Years

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• I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

  Josie Maran

  Play, Roles, Action

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