Costumes Quotes - Page 8

• I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.

  Keira Knightley

  Drama, Book, Way

  "Keira Knightley Talks Pride and Prejudice". Interview with Julian Roman, www.movieweb.com. November 8, 2005.

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• The universe has fascinated mankind for many, many years, dating back to the very earliest episodes of Star Trek, when the brave crew of the Enterprise set out, wearing pajamas, to explore the boundless voids of space, which turned out to be as densely populated as Queens, New York. Virtually every planet they found was inhabited, usually by evil beings with cheap costumes and Russian accents, so finally the brave crew of the Enterprise returned to Earth to gain weight and make movies.

  Dave Barry

  Stars, Queens, New York

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.270, Ballantine Books

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• You never know how stylish a movie is going to be and I think this movie has a great sense of style. The way that it is shot and our costumes and everything, it was just terrific.

  Julia Roberts

  Thinking, Style, Way

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.

  Phoebe Fox

  Children, Mirrors, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the costumes on before you start and feel the weight of them, which is great. But then you're opposite some of the greatest actors in the world and away you go. You find your imagination takes over without you really even thinking about it.

  Ray Winstone

  Thinking, Opposites, Games

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• There is no ordinary run of mankind, there are only individuals who are totally different. And whether a man is naked and black and stands on one foot in Sudan or is clothed in some kind of costume in a bus in England, they are still individuals of entirely different characters.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Running, Character, Men

  "Waugh at the BBC: 'the most ill-natured interview ever' on CD after 55 years" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2008.

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• I was a gorilla boxer. I had a full gorilla suit on with boxing gloves. I had an amateur belt on. No one knew that it was me in the costume and I was going into stores and scaring people and boxing on them. It was fun.

  Daniel Jacobs

  Fun, People, Boxing

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• Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.

  Conor Oberst

  Beautiful, Doctors, Looks

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• The Dutch at close proximity looked much like Americans, apart from their peculiar uniforms, and so it was their uniforms I fired at, half convinced that I was killing, not human beings, but enemy costumes, which had borne their contents here from a distant land; and if some living man suffered for his enslavement to the uniform, or was penetrated by the bullets aimed at it well, that was unavoidable, and the fault couldn't be placed at my feet. The private charade was not equivalent to Courage, but it enabled a Callousness that served a similar purpose.

  Robert Charles Wilson

  Men, Land, Feet

  "Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America". Book by Robert Charles Wilson, 2009.

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• I am interested in costume. Clothes in your daily life are important: your choices say something about you, even if what they're saying is about non-choice. And what you wear in a film is crucial.

  Clemence Poesy

  Clothes, Choices, Important

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• A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

  Clemence Poesy

  Character, Silhouettes, Film

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• There's a difference between sexy and hyper-sexy. The way I have drawn Vampirella, she's definitely sexy, I designed the costume. But her costume, through the years, has gotten briefer and briefer. She has been hypersexualized, but not by me. I mean, I see drawings in which she's got the 'brokeback pose'. I would never do that.

  Trina Robbins

  Sexy, Mean, Years

  Interview with Kyrax2, comicsbulletin.com. May 7, 2012.

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• I chose not to jump into the media frenzy and defend myself, though I was begged to be on every single TV show in existence. They want to blame entertainment? Isn't religion the first real entertainment? People dress up in costumes, sing songs and dedicate themselves in eternal fandom.

  Marilyn Manson

  Song, Real, Media

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• 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; that's part of it.

  Gina Bellman

  Fun, Acting, Dresses

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• What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.

  Mike Mignola

  Book, Tv Shows, Body

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• I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

  Julia Sawalha

  Drama, Lucky, Time Travel

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• I always had a hard time with fiction. It does feel like driving a car in a clown suit. You're going somewhere, but you're in costume, and you're not really fooling anybody. You're the guy in costume, and everybody's supposed to forget that and go along with you. Obviously, it can work, it works all the time - well, it doesn't always work. Still, no matter what, I'm always looking at the form and addressing it, not ignoring it.

  Dave Eggers

  Hard Times, Suits You, Car

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 23, 2005.

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• It took me a while to warm to the '20s costumes on 'Downton.' I love it when women accentuate their curves, and that era was all about hiding them. The shapes they wore then were in tune with female empowerment. Cutting off their hair and hiding their busts was a way of saying, 'We're equal to men!'

  Lily James

  Cutting, Men, Curves

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• Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Jobs, Character, Designer

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama.

  Jaime Winstone

  Opera, Want, Melodrama

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• The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.

  Ray Winstone

  Differences, People, Normal

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age. I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it's one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself.

  Nicolas Cage

  Halloween, Holiday, Makeup

  "Nicolas Cage Is '2 Percent Open' to the Existence of Ghosts" by Matt Patches, www.esquire.com. September 25, 2015.

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• When I get up in the morning, I go and I work with beautiful women and charming men and funny comedians and dramatic artists. And I'm presented with costumes and great music to choose from and sets. I travel a certain amount of places, so I've been living in a bubble. And I like it.

  Woody Allen

  Beautiful, Morning, Artist

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• Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sleep, Deeds, Arms

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1972). “Early Lectures: 1838-1842”, p.156, Harvard University Press

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• [Ritual] dwells in an invisible reality and gives this reality a vocabulary, props, costume, gesture, scenery. Ritual makes things separate, sets them apart from ordinary affairs and thoughts. Rituals need not be solemn, but they are formalized, stylized, extraordinary, and artificial. In the name of ritual, we can do anything. We can do astonishing acts. In the end, ritual gives us assurance about the unification of things.

  Barbara Myerhoff

  Reality, Names, Vocabulary

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