Costumes Quotes

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.

I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.

A producer has to know all about everything from set-building to costumes to acting

When youre young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.

I would love to play the Femme Fatale or an action role like Trinity in the Matrix or something like that. You know, a part with a lot of costume changes.

I was Pac-Man. It was the worst costume ever. You would expect a big round suit, but it was just a mask and a smock with a maze on it.

Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.

On the side of box of my superman costume it actually said - 'Do not attempt to fly!'

In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight.

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

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

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

I am very sorry if I have caused any offence. It was a poor choice of costume.

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

I'm a fiend for costume jewellery and have countless pairs of rhinestone or diamante earrings, which are so flattering when they catch the light. I love the designers Alexis Bittar and Kenneth Jay Lane, and I always go to jewellers Butler & Wilson.

It's a bit of an outside-in approach - so often the clothing can reveal so much about a character. It's like part of her superhero costume that she gets to put on and become someone else.

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.

I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.

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.

My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.

Mythological subjects always new. Modern subjects difficult because of the absence of the nude and the wretchedness of modern costume.

I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.

I like to think that at the end of a show, you can just take your costume off and go to the pub.

Nothings makes a woman look older that a rich costume.

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

Halloween is my favorite holiday, and I always go all-out with my costumes.

Figure skating is theatrical, and a part of it is wearing costumes. My costumes were very over-the-top and outrageous for figure skating. But for me, it's all beautiful. Even when nobody else believed they were beautiful, I felt beautiful in them.

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

I gradually work myself into a frenzy as the shoot approaches, while we're choosing the costumes or working with the make-up artist. I'm not so much interested in my character as the film itself.

Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

A good style fits like a good costume.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

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.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

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.

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

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.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

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

Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

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

I liked the choreography, but I didn't care for the costumes.

We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.

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.