Quotes About Costumes

I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, but there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

A group of little creatures is coming up the walk. A pirate, a dinosaur, two fairies, and a bride. Why is it that you never see a kid dressed as a groom on Halloween?

My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...

THERE ARE VERY LIMITED OPTIONS for Asian girls on Halloween. Like one year I went as Velma from Scooby-Doo, but people just asked me if I was a manga character. I even wore a wig! So now I'm committed to dressing up as Asian characters exclusively.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2015 SantaCon today (again—it feels like it's twice a year) in the 60-degree weather. Gay people don't seem to take part in it, which is interesting because it's all about costumes and drinking. It's all straight, buffoonish guys who I'm pretty sure wind up doing it with dudes at the end of the night. I don't know why.

Auditioning and actually acting on a set are two different things. When you audition, you're in a room and you don't have anything to play with and you don't have anything physically in the room. Whereas on set, you have direction, you have costumes, and you have other actors to work with. It's a completely different thing.

I'd say probably the most expensive costumes I've ever made were the costumes in 'The Planet of the Apes,' because of the research and development that went into them and the amount of layers.

Antagonists are always creatives efforts. They get extra attention be it in their costumes to their screen time. I actually enjoy it.

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.

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.

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.

Their costumes look purchased from the Goodwill store on Tatoine.

O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

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

I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.

For my 21st birthday party, I had a 'Strictly'-themed fancy dress.

I am allergic to fancy dress. This is actual fact.

One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

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.

It's an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in 'The Lord of the Rings' and 'The Hobbit' wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic - false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

I get more distracted by hair or a really bad wig than I do costumes any day of the week.

I actually have a stash of wigs for Halloween. But only for that. Not to play dress-up.

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

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comfortable with how much I reveal about myself is acting. I enjoy the characters, the costumes, the wigs and just being a chameleon.