Quotes About Costume

You've only got to look at a film to see that it has to be collaborative - the images, the performances and all the art direction and the costume, everything shrieks collaboration.

My costume was a failure; it did not fit me. They had always jeered at me for my thinness and in this dress I looked like an English teapot.

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller.

I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

Okay. How about detectives? What about Sherlock Holmes?" Stevie rolled her eyes. "What's wrong with Sherlock Holmes?" Janelle asked. "Nothing is wrong with Sherlock Holmes," Stevie said. "But he's not a costume. He's . .

The arresting feature of his costume was a mulberry-coloured coat, with brass buttons. This, to any one versed in Oxford lore, betokened him a member of the Junta.

Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. (they make these?) For me to store my novel on, since he was right-I never back up my computer's hard drive. The sight of it-it's Princess Leia in her Hoth outfit, my favorite of her costumes (how had he remembered?) brought tears to my eyes.

I've done a lot of costume dramas and things that are set in the past, and it's great to be able to have things that you can research and material that you can look at.

I don't think there's an archetype for the Justin Bieber fan. A Bieber fan just looks like an American. You wouldn't even need a costume to try and resemble one.

Acting can be a really silly thing. It's like playing dress-up.

I've always liked the simplicity of the Black Panther costume. I've never liked when people give him flashy capes and other adornments.

If you want to preach, young man, you ought to wear some kind of clerical costume so people would be warned. In my mind, there are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them. I hate le misérabilisme. I'm in the shining business, not the darkening business.

Und der Verstand ist eine Illusion (...) Nichts weiter als ein Kostüm, in das der Mensch die Summe seiner Gefühle steckt.

You can't really indulge in anything when you're wearing a unitard. No bread, no beer, no anything delicious.

My favorite event of the season is the Costume Institute Gala at the Met in May. To that I'll wear custom Vera Wang.

It is terribly bad form to admit to being terrified for one's life, but nobody in their right mind would go to a Court banquet without making preparations. One must have the right costume, the right Faces, and at least eighty-two ways of avoiding assassination.

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate.

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

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

My father has developed a tradition of surprising us at some point by appearing in fancy dress. He buys a new costume each year and typically gets carried away. A couple of Christmases ago he appeared in an inflatable sumo outfit. It's endearing, really, and only quite embarrassing.

I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

The first day of the shoot, I had been in my trailer and came out dressed as Peter Parker in his slightly daggy corduroy jacket with his camera around his neck. Almost instantly, 500 or more people just stopped and started to watch us. They were calling out my name, calling out, 'Peter' or 'Spidey'.

For this game, we shot it just like it as if it was a film so there wasn't that much different from doing a film other than some technical things for the costume that had to be done so they could transfer the footage later and make it look animated.