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Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are. -- Colleen Atwood
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story. -- Mason Cooley
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. -- Douglas Coupland
In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything. -- Molly Parker
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
Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences. -- Anna Held
My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women. -- Brenda Holloway
I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore. -- Lee Meriwether
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure. -- Zig Ziglar
A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting -- Alan Ladd
Costumes are so much better than clothes. They're like drugs, they change your personality. -- Mary Woronov
Costumes are fun. Dress up like a pilot some night and watch as people stare! -- Tim Heidecker
I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller. -- Julia Sawalha
Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume. -- Vera Wang
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
I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily. -- Ronnie Corbett
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
The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. -- James Randi
I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball. -- Fred Frith
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
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
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
Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing. -- Morgan Freeman
It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own. -- Julius Wellhausen
Costumes, fashion, it's all an expression of self, and the more you push the boundaries - the more that people work at creating alternative ideas - the more it changes people's ideas of beauty. -- Reese Witherspoon
Costumes are all about identifying which force in a conflict you're on. That's where banners and flags came from - so people rushing into battle knew who to follow and who was on their side. -- Jim Lee
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
We talk about theatre museums filled with old costumes and things. What we also need is a theatre museum of the old routines on videotape. We are only the custodians of those techniques, and they should be preserved. -- Jim Dale
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
Costumes say a lot about a character. When it came to 'Palo Alto,' it was important for me that the kids didn't look perfect. In most teen movies today, all of the clothes are expensive. I remember wearing a lot of dirty vintage clothes. -- Gia Coppola
I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture. -- Christian Siriano
I really miss wearing costumes and makeup. -- Brendon Urie
Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
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
I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume. -- Ginnifer Goodwin
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
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
Mad Men' doesn't capture one single thing about the decor, costumes, or sexual interaction. It is a total projection of contemporary snarky attitudes into the past. -- Camille Paglia
My whole background is character acting: weird costumes, fat suits, playing men, playing animals - I've never played anyone with whom there's any overlapping Venn diagram. -- Allison Williams
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
My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character. -- Lily Collins
There are a lot of similarities between dancing and wrestling. The costumes are the same, the spandex and all that, but you have to be light on your feet to do both, and you have to remember choreography. -- Chris Jericho
I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular. -- Kristen Bell
The journey matters as much as the destination. By engaging in the moment on set, I've stopped rushing and now find pleasure in the collaborative process - the characters, the costumes - rather than worrying about the finished product. -- Michelle Dockery
I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it. -- Maddie Ziegler
In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. -- Oscar Wilde
My mom used to make my costumes when I was little; she sews a lot. One year, I was a bride and I had a big wedding dress and a bouquet. Another year I was a medieval princess with a long teal dress and a veil. It was a little extravagant, but it was cute! -- Sasha Pieterse
Let's say you go to a friend's wedding, or Thanksgiving, or Halloween. It'd be great the next day to see what went on with your friends' Thanksgiving weekend, or all the costumes they wore on Halloween, and be able to look back and see what they wore the year before, and the year before that. -- Mike McCue
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
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
Unlike other voice-over situations which are done in a recording studio, Roger Rabbit was live action and animation combined, and there was a time factor, so my voice was recorded live on the set. So I'm on the set rehearsing and recording my voice as a performance with the other actors, and they're all wearing costumes, and it made sense to me. -- Charles Fleischer
I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2 to Hellboy's revolver - ends with the paint job. And it's not just cosmetic. The paint literally tells a story: what this thing is made of, where it's been, what it's been used for, and for how long. -- Adam Savage
I guess, for me, I've always thought that there was humor everywhere. And as a kid, I just, you know, I grew up an only child, and I - sort of nothing made me happier than to make my parents laugh. I remember I had costumes and things laying around the house that I was, you know, anything that I could do to make my parents laugh. -- Justin Timberlake
Sometimes I steal costumes. -- Rich Fulcher
My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters. -- Slash
History is the same story with different costumes. -- Stefan Molyneux
Tales of adultery are much improved by period costumes. -- Mason Cooley
I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes. -- Tommy Tune
Ballet costumes are easier that opera because they are designed for movement. -- Azzedine Alaia
Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs. -- Victoria Wood
I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes. -- Audrina Patridge
I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them. -- Debbie Reynolds
I like costumes. I am always dressing up - I'm very English like that. -- Lou Doillon
I like to work in costumes, makeup, and hair that allow me tremendous freedom. -- Jessica Lange
I have some extra costumes-" "No!" Ephialtes snapped, and for once Percy was in agreement. -- Rick Riordan
I only assumed those dresses were costumes, based on the garish nature of the plumage. -- Kami Garcia
If the costumes are wrong, you feel awful in them and it lessens your acting. -- Joan Chen
You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties. -- Cesare Pavese
I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop. -- Amy Sedaris
If I'm going to go to the opera, I want to see the costumes and the melodrama. -- Jaime Winstone
Now people need special costumes to ride bicycles. I mean, a helmet, what, are you an astronaut?? -- Fran Lebowitz
I totally remove myself from any costumes, wardrobe, any choreography. I could care less about that stuff. -- Blake Shelton
If you have the right costumes you feel more confident as the character, they really help you act. -- Joan Chen
Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise. -- Vernon Howard
I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week. -- Colleen Atwood
Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness -- Walter Benjamin
I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in. -- Colleen Atwood
The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver. -- Richard Madden
If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields. -- Justina Chen
The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well. -- Will Self
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore. -- Emily Dickinson
We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore." -- Emily Dickinson
I have over five thousand costumes and props and cars, and I have a twenty-five thousand square foot warehouse full of memorabilia. -- Debbie Reynolds
My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes -- Adriana Trigiani
I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken. -- Santigold
One of my pet peeves about biblical epics was that the characters' costumes always looked like they're just out of the dry cleaners. -- Roma Downey
For men there are costumes like fireman, policeman and vampire. For women there are costumes like slutty fireman, slutty policeman and slutty vampire. -- Dana Gould
In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight. -- Ram Dass
I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up. -- Vincent Cassel
At last, small witches, goblins, hags, And pirates armed with paper bags Their costumes hinged on safety pins, Go haunt a night of pumpkin grins. -- John Updike
A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time. -- David Mamet
An actress in a film starts every day with an hour and a half in front of a mirror, with hair and make-up and costumes. -- Debra Winger
I still think as a painter - especially in terms of structuring a picture... I carefully choose the models, costumes, requisites, and backdrops of my photographs. -- Loretta Lux
My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat. -- Anne Sexton
Glenn is going to bring a couple of sumo costumes down so we might have a dust-up in the technical area, that should make good TV -- Stuart Pearce
Have you ever dated a Goth chick for four or five months until you realized she was just an Orthodox Jew? They have the same costumes. -- Dana Gould
In 'Summer and Smoke,' I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll. -- Geraldine Page
There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them. -- Julianne Hough
I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am. -- Alessandro Nivola
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes. -- James Randi
There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood. -- Siri Hustvedt
I've always been attracted to romantic secondhand clothes. But my style developed as I started going to these strange raves where everybody had these very definitive costumes. -- Florence Welch
My mother was the worst kind of stage mother. She would make me and my younger sister and brother little duckling costumes and put us in kiddie shows. -- Renee Fleming
I see myself wrapped in lies, which do not seem to penetrate my soul, as if they are not really a part of me. They are like costumes. -- Anais Nin
Radio is truly the theater of the mind. The listener constructs the sets, colors them from his own palette, and sculpts and costumes the characters who perform in them. -- Mercedes McCambridge
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
I'm definitely excited about roles where I get to wear cool costumes. I love Game of Thrones, and would love to do something like that. I'm totally a dork. -- Fiona Gubelmann
Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story. -- Spike Lee
Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself. -- Ira Sachs
My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields. -- Dolly Parton
My style is chic, streamlined and original. I don't like to wear the same things as other people - I push boundaries. Growing up, I was really excited about costumes. -- Ashley Leggat
In my head, I wanted to be Madonna, but the music I was writing on paper was not what you'd choreograph dancers in costumes to. It was more coffee-house stuff. -- Bonnie McKee
I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good. -- Florence Welch
I started to really enjoy the fact that [princess] Margaret was an exhibitionist. Even on a day-to-day basis, Margaret's costumes were always so much more dramatic and bold than Elizabeth's were. -- Vanessa Kirby
Historical costumes from the 18th and 19th centuries look so complicated, but when you see the patterns, it's very systematic. I've always been impressed by how the patterns economize the fabric. -- Olivier Theyskens
I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood. -- Lake Bell
What's happening is that people are making a billion photographs a year of their cats, frequently with the cats wearing costumes. Do you think I should be doing shows of cat photography? -- John Szarkowski
One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times. -- Colleen Atwood
I got these big coffee table books about Chinese opera from the local library, and I loved looking through them. I loved studying the intricate costumes and figuring out how to 'cartoonify' them. -- Gene Luen Yang

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