Costume Designer Quotes

#1. I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

Adam Lambert

#2. Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

Nina Arianda

#3. 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

#4. I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model.

Isabella Rossellini

#5. All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.

Caio Fonseca

#6. I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line.

Lucy Hale

#7. Screenwriting you don't necessarily have to do the job of the costume designer and the prop master and the set designer. It's more just about finding the visuals and finding these characters through dialogue.

Jonathan Tropper

#8. The costume designer, her name is Anne Hardinge. She's done "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz." She's really comedic costume designer, which was right up my alley. She was a joy to work with. She was like fabulous Geena Davis. She was just floating with her red lip and kind of fabulous.

Jerusha Hess

#9. My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

#10. As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look.

Eric Daman

#11. As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

Patricia Norris

#12. I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.

Georgina Chapman

#13. I love mixing prints. The costume designer for 'Pair of Kings' and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character 'Mikayla.'

Kelsey Chow

#14. What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person.

Edith Head

#15. We needed to have a great set decorator, a great D.P., a great costume designer, everybody. Without all these people, we would have made a shitty movie.

Vincent Paronnaud

#16. Helena Bonham-Carter and I sat down to talk about [Cinderella movie] and she said, 'I really want to do it but only one thing I insist on and that's wings.' She had to have wings and [costume designer] Sandy Powell didn't want wings to begin with but had to be talked around, but that was fun.

Kenneth Branagh

#17. The hats are tough. I've got a weird head, so believe me, there were a lot of hats. Penny [Rose], our costume designer, who I knew from other jobs said, "Badge, that looks terrible on you. Hold on. No, we can't do that one."

James Badge Dale

#18. The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter.

Colleen Atwood

#19. You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing.

John Sayles

#20. Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in one department or the other, because through working on one and seeing what other people do in the movie makes you realize what your role is if you become a costume designer.

Colleen Atwood

#21. Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character.

Blake Lively

#22. Cake is one of life's great wonders, and who would deny wonder to a child?

Lauren Child

#23. Falling is one of the ways of moving.

Merce Cunningham

#24. Gifts are temporary and often forgotten; love is forever and always remembered.

Ken Poirot

#25. There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course.

Terence Fisher

#26. I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman.

Kerry Washington

#27. How come princesses always have some huge flaw that can cause their downfall?

Rachel Cohn

#28. Almost won means nothing but lose.
Learn your lesson, you'll be stronger.

Toba Beta

#29. Through it all we held fast to the concept of the clock with no hands. Tasks were completed, sump pumps manned, sandbags piled, trees planted, shirts ironed, hems stitched, and yet we reserved the right to ignore the hands that kept on turning.

Patti Smith

#30. Ability involves responsibility; power, to its last particle, is duty.

Ian Maclaren

#31. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.

Henry David Thoreau

#32. That conflict between the reach for the divine and the lure of earthly things was to be the central problem of the Middle Ages.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#33. You adapt: the impossible becomes imaginable, thinkable, logical. Three easy steps. from Best Friends

Martha Moody

#34. Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had been professionally faded and tattered and worn-out

Joe Hill

#35. In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.

Alex Steffen

#36. 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.

Irving R. Kaufman

#37. Just went to a lovely Catholic wedding. I need a drink. They didn't even offer us water. Well they did, but it was Holy water.

Bob Saget

#38. I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

John Knowles

#39. I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children; I got a bag of lettuce. I hurled myself on the floor and sobbed. The worst thing about trying to get myself undepressed were the days when it seemed like I hadn't made any progress at all.

Debby Bull

#40. sense trying to make him feel bad about it. She tilted back her glass and went past the gin for a second time. She

Ann Patchett