Costume Quotes - page 2

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)

As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday.

Bryan Batt

All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

Caio Fonseca

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

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

I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it's always been floating up there, but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me.

Colleen Atwood

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

Cassandra Peterson

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

Dirk Benedict

I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

Dan Fogler

I had a Spider-man costume when I was about three, and I lost the mask. So I went to the underwear drawer and put a pair of red pants on my head. My dad came home and just laughed, and I ran into my room and burst into tears.

Emun Elliott

Costume designers don't care about trends. They appreciate, above so many other qualities, that tailoring is everything, which is a mantra for the way I dress. Ladies: The most important thing in clothing is to find a good, inexpensive tailor, because clothes at the stores are made for bodies that are anomalies. (Ginnifer Goodwin)

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

When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'

Jean Patou

I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

Joan Severance

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

Julia Sawalha

At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

Kurt Busiek

People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.

Kate Adie

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

Katherine Waterston

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

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Irving R. Kaufman

I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys. (Melissa Rosenberg)

Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

Nina Arianda

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Terence Fisher

I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.

Verne Troyer

I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

Yaya Han

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