Costumes Quotes - Page 5

In real life I'm obviously a lot more shy, but once I'm on set and in costume and I'm hidden behind the person I'm playing I feel quite free to experiment.

And I guess I have a face and a look that sort of lends itself to period costume!

I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role.

It was the sheer variety of the pain that stopped me from crying out. It came from so many places, spoke so many languages, wore so many dazzling varieties of ethnic costume, that for a full fifteen seconds I could only hang my jaw in amazement.

A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.

I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.

If you have a funny costume, you can't really wear it when you get older.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume.

For my part, if I had the power I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period - with a possible exception in the case of the Creation.

I always use the analogy that when you go to a jeans store and put on a new pair of jeans, it's a pair of jeans and they feel different; so, when you're dealing with these sort of costumes it's a very big departure and really does make you feel quite different. But it's wonderful.

With everything that you do, once the costume is on, and you're in the pretend hospital, and you're there with your co-workers, it all sort of snaps into place: Who you are, what it feels like, who these people are to you.

I have over 5000 costumes, and the furniture and memorabilia that goes with them.

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.

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

No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

I think color, for a costume designer, is one of your biggest storytelling devices.