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Costume, hair and makeup can tell you instantly, or at least give you a larger perception of who a character is. It's the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth, so it really does establish who they are. -- Colleen Atwood
Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me. -- Adam Driver
No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. -- Helena Bonham Carter
Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu -- Coco Chanel
Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill! -- Dana Gould
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out. -- Katherine Waterston
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
Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad. -- Sally Field
Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses. -- Colleen Atwood
The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry has always been about being noticed and not discreet. -- Judith Miller
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
I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model. -- Isabella Rossellini
Somewhere along the line, a concert became a variety show. It was no longer enough for four dudes to play together in front of some guitar amps. Costume changes, an army of dancers, and Broadway theatrics suddenly became standard for a 'concert.' -- Shawn Amos
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. -- Zig Ziglar
The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape. -- Zoe Kravitz
The great thing about costume jewelry is that there's something for everyone - there are very humorous pieces and very extravagant and outrageous pieces. -- Judith Miller
I am, in fact, Superman. Every morning I wake up and go into a telephone booth and change my costume, and then go to work. -- Stephen Daldry
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
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
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'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
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous. -- Mary Schmich
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
I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me. -- Camille Claudel
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
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
My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools. -- Seamus Dever
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
What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person. -- Edith Head
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
Superman is the hardest character to draw. There are a couple of things that make him difficult. He's got a very simple costume and doesn't have the long cape like Batman. He's not a character that is necessarily always in shadow, and he doesn't have a mask. -- Jim Lee
I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden. -- Taylor Swift
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
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
At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts. -- Guy Berryman
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 brother's 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
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
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
Get my swan costume ready. -- Anna Pavlova
Diplomacy is the police in grand costume. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry. -- Madeleine Albright
A good style fits like a good costume. -- Amos Bronson Alcott
Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses. -- Mason Cooley
My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater. -- Philip Seymour Hoffman
You look like a horse in a man costume -- Dylan Moran
I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume! -- Dirk Benedict
I had a lot of fun with my costume designer. -- Adam Lambert
I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once. -- Margarita Levieva
Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume. -- Coco Chanel
When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume. -- Willie Geist
When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume. -- Willie Geist
I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore. -- Lee Meriwether
The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs. -- Amelia Bloomer
Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama -- Gail Carriger
So, did the costume come with a condom, or is that sold separately? -- Rachel Vincent
For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character. -- Sam Riley
When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song. -- Sam Walton
They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings) -- Peggy Lee
This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else. -- Christina Ricci
KILT, n. A costume sometimes worn by Scotchmen in America and Americans in Scotland. -- Ambrose Bierce
I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices. -- Alexandra Byrne
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I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume. -- Kelly Hu
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume. -- Rudyard Kipling
I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose. -- Marilyn Manson
I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world. -- Gillian Armstrong
He giggled like a puppy being tickled by a kitten wearing a duckling costume. -- Jim Benton
Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume. -- Sophie McShera
If you have a funny costume, you can't really wear it when you get older. -- Greg Proops
The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume. -- Morgan Freeman
As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look. -- Eric Daman
I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them. -- Joan Severance
I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie. -- Kevin Spacey
As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4. -- Steve Coogan
Im able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie. -- Kevin Spacey
I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people. -- Dominic West
The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie. -- Carl B. Hamilton
I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design. -- Ashley Wagner
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills." -- Warwick Davis
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on. -- Lucy Liu
In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills. -- Warwick Davis
I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume. -- Prince Harry
And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman. -- Jerry Seinfeld
Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on." -- Lucy Liu
I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening. -- Tamsin Egerton
I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened. -- Cassandra Peterson
We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse. -- Bryan Batt
I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop. -- Amy Sedaris
Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming. -- Channing Tatum
To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough. -- Johnny Weir
I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work. -- Verne Troyer
And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume! -- Ioan Gruffudd
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice. -- Amanda Eliasch
Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist. -- Jay Leno
Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion. -- Orla Brady
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer. -- Caio Fonseca
Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume. -- Vera Wang
Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am. -- Paul Stanley
I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman. -- Kerry Washington
On the side of box of my superman costume it actually said - 'Do not attempt to fly!' -- Jerry Seinfeld
I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day. -- Stephanie Perkins
I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller. -- Julia Sawalha
I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though. -- Gary Cole
I like a house party and fancy dress, a big fan of fancy dress, like dress up, costume parties. -- Florence Welch
It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music. -- Nancy Kerrigan
I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me. -- Amy Ryan
I put the costume on and said 'It's not very comfortable, but it looks amazing,' so it's all good. -- Chris Hemsworth
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume. -- Eugene Delacroix
I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?' -- Drew Carey
When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - bedraggled. -- Jean Patou
No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya -- Cate Tiernan
I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added. -- Louise GluÌ?ck
I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time. -- Clemence Poesy
The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver. -- Richard Madden
I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line. -- Lucy Hale
Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character. -- Blake Lively
I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars'' costume designer, Mandi Line. -- Lucy Hale
As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop. -- Patricia Norris

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