Costume Quotes

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Zig Ziglar

Success, Failure, Cannot

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
Chuck Palahniuk

Change, Death, Character

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.
Emo Philips

Women, Live, Beat

Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
Katy Perry

Remember, Grateful, Wanted

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.
Jerry Seinfeld

Business, Off, Ridiculous

I've always been misrepresented. You know, I could dress in a clown costume and laugh with the happy people but they'd still say I'm a dark personality.
Tim Burton

Happy, Laugh, Dark

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 a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.
Jeff Bridges

Great, Art, Movies

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
Alan Rickman

Time, Children, Small

I loved doing all those costume dramas. I didn't think, 'Ooh I've got to avoid being typecast' - you can't ever be dictated to by what other people think. I just do things because I fancy the parts and the directors.
Helena Bonham Carter

Loved, Avoid, Directors

There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.
Morgan Freeman

Learning, Nothing, Mystery

No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.
Helena Bonham Carter

Change, Fight, Feeling

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.
Christina Ricci

Else, Everyone, Maniac

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

Night, Fashion, Challenge

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.
Mindy Kaling

School, Deep, High

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
Adam Lambert

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.
Meryl Streep

Work, Pain, Strong

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

Time, Talk, Film

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

Give, Understand, Acting

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, Important, Put

You look at Cheney, Rumsfeld, Karl Rove, and Bush - if you saw them on Halloween, they wouldn't need a costume. You'd give them a treat and compliment them on what great-looking demons they were. They are demons. There's no doubt about it.
Tommy Chong

Doubt, Give, Treat

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Girlfriend, Theater, Designer

My fancy dress costume of choice is... something 1920s or 30s, when there was still so much elegance and attention to detail. An excuse for ultimate dressing-up indulgence.
Ellie Goulding

Choice, Attention, Ultimate

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'
Drew Carey

Face, Mirror, Halloween

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction.
Lewis Thomas

Future, Busy, Hard

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.
Channing Tatum

Last, Actually, Tradition

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

Good, Amazing, Put

I do tend to play characters that have a lot of costume and hair change. I sort of like the change of physicality thing.
Katey Sagal

Change, Play, Hair

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!
Dirk Benedict

Fit, Battlestar, Galactica

All through my life what I've loved doing is watching movies. I love the escapism of film, I love stories. So it is incredible to be able to be in them as much as I am, to see them from the first stitch in a costume to the end product.
Keira Knightley

Life, Love, Movies

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

Good, Care, Important

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