Top 100 Costume Quotes
#1. If only your life were a costume, and you could just take it off when you wanted to, leave it hanging on a hook, and walk away.
Brad Barkley
#2. Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to dress in a style that can only be called preposterous.
Mary Schmich
#3. 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.
Ray Toro
#4. I wish I dared dispense with all costume. Naked children are so perfectly pure and lovely; but Mrs. Grundy would be furious - it would never do.
Lewis Carroll
#5. I don't know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way - all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup - all the time. When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.
Taylor Swift
#6. 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.
Jerry Seinfeld
#7. I've read all of Shakespeare and practiced a lot of lines ... I am going to do Juliet first. Don't laugh. What, with what makeup, costume and camera can do, my acting will create a Juliet who is 14, an innocent virgin.
Marilyn Monroe
#8. As I wouldn't wear a costume, I couldn't imagine him wanting to wear one. And seeing that the greater part of my wardrobe is black (It's a sensible colour. It goes with anything. Well, anything black)[ ... ].
Neil Gaiman
#9. The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.
Oscar Wilde
#10. People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there's only me and the cameraman.
Kate Adie
#11. I love fashion, and I've always wanted to do costume design, but I'm in jeans and T-shirts most of the time.
Clemence Poesy
#12. This costume, utterly uncouth, seemed to have been invented as a final test of grace, and to show that there was nothing too ridiculous for fashion to consecrate.
Honore De Balzac
#13. I love Pinterest! Pinterest is absolutely phenomenal when you're trying to come up with a costume design.
Ashley Wagner
#14. Every year, I have to spend another hour working out. Pretty soon I'll be spending eight hours working out just to fit in the costume. I have the feeling that the minute I stop doing the character, boom, Roseanne Barr.
Cassandra Peterson
#15. Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs. Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!
Dana Gould
#16. Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth,
but to make them beautifu
Coco Chanel
#17. I recently did a play, Athol Fugard's 'Coming Home' at Long Wharf Theatre, where I played one character throughout - I sat at a table and didn't have any costume changes. Following one character's arc from beginning to end is a whole different mindset.
Colman Domingo
#18. You'll get a lot of 'no' RSVPs to your next party," I said, brushing the smoldering bits from my costume. His smile only widened. "This isn't the first party I've thrown where fewer guests left than arrived.
Jeaniene Frost
#19. I know what party you're talking about. I might have to swing through. Especially if you're going to be there in a costume." He winked and leaned back in his seat.
"I'm going as a homeless person."
"Sexy.
Chanelle Gray
#20. It's very lonely, feeling like an outcast. Like you are invited to a costume party, but you are the only one in a mask.
Ellen Schreiber
#21. Let's say there are things about 'G.I. Joe' that you specifically expect and some things that need to be in the film at certain points, whether it be relationships or certain costume aspects.
D.J. Cotrona
#22. Lady Godiva costume is the most suitable clothes for young red ladies.
Bryanna Reid
#23. I always liked clothes; since I was very, very young, I was interested. I studied costume as part of my theatre education.
John Malkovich
#24. People like to stir up the fashion vs. costume world, and I think what they mean by 'too costumey' is that it's too much, or not real enough for everyday wear. You couldn't say that about John Galliano's shows, right? I mean, they're awesome, and they're total costume.
Colleen Atwood
#25. I had nothing and I was still changed. Like a costume, my numbness was taken away. Then hunger was added.
Louise Gluck
#26. It was not merely that Holmes changed his costume. His expression, his manner, his very soul seemed to vary with every fresh part that he assumed. The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#27. If the crowd is too big, it's too much for me. I took my daughter down there, and all I did was spend all of my time worrying that she was going to get lost because you're caught between somebody with a sandwich in their hand and somebody in a costume. It's really crazy.
Lance Henriksen
#28. When I get a new script, I write a record of how many costume and make-up changes I have. I cross-check them against the shooting schedule and then consult with the hair and make-up designers.
Gina Bellman
#29. 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.
Honore De Balzac
#30. Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.
Jay Leno
#31. Her blonde tresses now lay unbound and flowing in comely waves down her back, like pale serpents against the blue sea of her costume.
Andrea Zuvich
#32. The modern designers are quite showy, and a lot of the young people really like it. Costume jewelry has always been about being noticed and not discreet.
Judith Miller
#33. 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
#34. My first role was an angel in the nursery nativity. I spotted my mum halfway through and shouted over someone else's lines to ask if she liked my costume. I've learnt not to do that now.
Emily Berrington
#36. There are so many parts of music that it's actually a pleasure for me to work with an orchestra, or a jazz band, or a choir, and use every element that the musical tool box can offer. The world of music I love so much, and I can change the costume depending on the part, and I'm actually in the film.
Alexandre Desplat
#37. Those are pretty much the only questions people ask Colonials. If they want you to tell them anything else, just make it up. They will believe you, because you are wearing a costume.
Leila Sales
#38. All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
Caio Fonseca
#39. I have never created anything in my life that did not make me feel, at some point or another, like I was the guy who just walked into a fancy ball wearing a homemade lobster costume.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#40. ...some people here seem to have stepped through a time-warp -- old Romans being recycled with a mere change of costume.
Umberto Bartolomeo
#41. Feeling the inevitable claim of the this desert, he experienced a desire to throw off his civilized costume, hurl himself upon Josephina, either succumb, or return to Guadalajara, where men could only complain of having too many buttons to button or unbutton...
Warren Eyster
#42. 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
#43. To wear every day, not big things that are only for dress." Another pause. "Yes, they were very expensive, but expensive doesn't make them right. I buy costume jewelry that I love, and I wear it all the time, because
Barbara Delinsky
#44. The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume like Spiderman or like Superman - The Hulk is more visual. His passion and his strength, that is what separates him from anything else.
Lou Ferrigno
#45. White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.
Richard Grossinger
#46. The clown knows that life is cruel. The ancient jester's motley coloured costume turned his usually melancholy expression in to a joke. The clown is used to loss. Loss is his prologue.
John Berger
#47. He's wearing a costume," I whispered to Emma. Then, to the guy: "She doesn't see a lot of movies." "A costume?" Emma scrunched her brow. "But he's a grown man.
Ransom Riggs
#48. I try very hard not to take work home, but it can be tricky. Sometimes it feels as if you are wearing your costume underneath your own clothes! I suppose things are always ticking away in the back of your mind.
Anne-Marie Duff
#49. 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.
Michael Jackson
#50. I want to create things while I have time on Earth, and the art of costume and culture has always inspired me.
Johnny Weir
#51. I went to America to get away from constantly being cast in costume dramas, playing posh people.
Dominic West
#52. My Halloween costume is Godot. I'm not showing up at the party, just texting the host every 10 minutes that I'm on my way.
Wynne McLaughlin
#54. I'm not ashamed of my human or my lynx form. I wear clothes because people force me to. I don't need to put on a costume every morning to feel better about myself.
-Jack
Ilona Andrews
#55. I think that sometimes people don't understand that a costume that has to be worn every day and doesn't change the whole movie becomes iconic. It's very important because it requires a different design process, since you have to make something that people aren't going to get tired of looking at.
Colleen Atwood
#56. There's a certain relief to just being the guy who puts on the costume and walks onset and gets to prance or stomp around in a Ridley Scott or Baz Luhrmann movie.
Joel Edgerton
#57. You know, the first two, I probably should've seen coming. The leprechaun costume? Not so much.
Rich Burlew
#58. I almost wished he'd debated Cassidy in her ridiculous Harry Potter costume, so she could've wiped the smirk off his muggle face.
Robyn Schneider
#59. The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.
Zoe Kravitz
#60. (On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.
Emma Thompson
#61. 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
#62. I always have a moment when I know I'm designing the last costume that gets made for a movie, and it's always been floating up there, but it's kind of the last one. That's always probably the hardest one for me.
Colleen Atwood
#63. I design a lot of things that I wear onstage, but I'm always looking for unique stuff. I like creative things, so anything I can find at a secondhand costume shop to a Helmut Lang store, it doesn't matter - just unique stuff.
Amy Lee
#64. It feels kind of strange knowing that I rule the whole planet of Naboo and I'm only thirteen. At first, my face - because it was really white - was a bit of a shock. But when the whole costume was put together and the headdress was put on, I really felt proud, like a Queen.
Keisha Castle-Hughes
#65. Finding something for a zombie costume in a wardrobe befitting Rainbow Brite isn't easy.
Kelley York
#66. I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick."
Franz Drameh
#67. Most of the January firsts in recent memory have involved splitting headaches and roiling stomachs and often being
surprised about where I was waking up. ("No, Officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? Oh. My bad.")
Cate Tiernan
#68. To sum up my idea of on-ice costume fashion sense, it's probably that too much is never enough.
Johnny Weir
#69. Offer people a new creed with a costume and their hearts and minds will follow.
Terry Pratchett
#70. Musk loves costume parties as well, and turned up at one dressed like a knight and using a parasol to duel a midget wearing a Darth Vader costume.
Ashlee Vance
#71. One thing I learned is that it's never OK to walk through a cemetery dressed as a mummy - even if that was a shortcut on the way to the costume party.
Demetri Martin
#72. I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around like a clotheshorse with a lot of very green trees or very yellow wheat or very blue ocean rolling away for miles and miles in every direction.
Sylvia Plath
#73. My mother gave me a pair of diamond earrings when I was 13. It symbolised becoming a teenager. I also remember getting a collection of costume jewellery from my grandmother when I was in high school.
Erin Wasson
#74. I think of clothes a lot like costumes. I think of what I wear in real life as being my real life character's costume.
Ginnifer Goodwin
#75. Love you in that cheerleader's costume. Last Friday. You didn't see me I guess. But I was there.
Joyce Carol Oates
#76. 'Turtles' was by far my favourite TV show when I was growing up. It would be the show that I would wanna watch more than anything. We'd record it on the big VHS tapes, and I'd watch it before school, after school, on the weekend, wear the costume, have all the weapons.
Greg Cipes
#77. I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.
Mindy Kaling
#78. Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
Amanda Eliasch
#79. Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I'd consider is having my bust reduced. It's alright for my current role in 'The Marquise' because it's a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it's a drag otherwise.
Kate O'Mara
#80. The historical side of fashion was very attractive to me when I was a teenager in Moscow, working for the costume departments in various Russian theater companies.
Alexander Vassiliev
#81. In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.
Warwick Davis
#82. I think one of the major differences between Wonder Woman and Jessica Jones is that Wonder Woman is iconic and much better known, so you get into a lot of ridiculous expectations, like what's her costume going to look like? Well, nobody knows who Jessica Jones is, except for fangirls and boys.
Melissa Rosenberg
#83. Let's talk about happy things.What should I be for Halloween? I can't decide between a sexy vampire or a sexy fairy.I've got a whole tub of glitter body gel for either costume,if you want to be the one I'm not!
Faeries and vampires were glittery now?
Honestly.
Kiersten White
#84. I thank you for your kind invitation to introduce me to the president of the Republic. Since I have not been out of my atelier for two months, I have no appropriate costume for this circumstance. Please excuse me.
Camille Claudel
#85. The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
Jeri Ryan
#86. I cannot draw to save my life, and I'm not a big art scholar, but I worked with many designers throughout my career - in theater, in dance, costume designers, set designers, and I have a lot of artist friends and I do photography, and I think it's kind of in my life.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#87. I had such a nice time making it, and I can't wait to make the fifth one. The whole crew were just really, really lovely. All the costume people, the make-up girls, the kids - even my driver.
David Thewlis
#89. I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
Zaha Hadid
#90. I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once. For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.
January Jones
#91. Celebrate your success and find humor in your failures. Don't take yourself so seriously. Loosen up and everyone around you will loosen up. Have fun and always show enthusiasm. When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.
Sam Walton
#92. Fashion offers no greater challenge than finding what works for night without looking like you are wearing a costume.
Vera Wang
#93. I've lost 12 inches in three weeks. Every time I go for the costume fitting each week, it's smaller and smaller. I'm feeling great. I'm putting in the work. I'm getting a lot of sleep. Everything is on the backburner right now. 'Dancing' is my priority.
Ricki Lake
#94. Myth is history in a masquerade costume. Peel away the fantastical facade, and you will always find a core of truth." Adrien Morel
Louisa Burton
#95. Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.
Katherine Waterston
#96. Oh, I get it. You're doing the girlfriend - what's her name? Megan?" "Merit," answered the girl at the table. "And it's a pretty good costume." I opened my mouth to object, to proclaim that I wasn't doing Ethan's girlfriend, I was Ethan's girlfriend, and I was doing Ethan.
Chloe Neill
#97. When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'
Jean Patou
#98. If you stood me in a costume next to a computer graphic of the same-looking character, I think there would be a difference. And many movie fans I've spoken to would rather see an actor in a costume than CG.
Warwick Davis
#99. The city was a puzzle box built of symbols, a confusion of old and new, armored cars and donkeys in the streets, Bedouins and bankers. The Turks and Haredim, the showy Greek and Russian processions -- everyone seemed to be in costume, reenacting the miraculous past.
Stewart O'Nan
#100. Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up.
Katy Perry
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