Period Costume Quotes

#1. 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.

Paul Feig

#2. As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4.

Steve Coogan

#3. (On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out.

Emma Thompson

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

Ioan Gruffudd

#5. I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

Andy Rourke

#6. Everything happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. - Malcolm Muggeridge1

J. Scott McElroy

#7. The arts and inventions of each period are only its costume, and do not invigorate men.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit.

Keira Knightley

#9. 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.

Ian Astbury

#10. One can be addicted to either lawlessness or lawfulness. Theologically there is no difference since both break relationship with God, the giver. ~ GERHARD O. FORDE

Elyse M. Fitzpatrick

#11. I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period.

Brenda Blethyn

#12. I tended to hold love hostage in my heart because, if expressed, I feared it might abandon me as many people in my life had.

Patricia Cornwell

#13. None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them.

Quentin Tarantino

#14. It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own.

Julius Wellhausen

#15. I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

Elizabeth Taylor

#16. I work out. I try to work out every day. That keeps me in the moment, which is great. Keeps my head from thinking about the future and the past too much. I love working out. That really helps me a lot.

John Rzeznik

#17. Let me say this loud and clear. There is a world of difference between terrorist acts and the Islamic Shari'a. Islam is not only a religion, but a way of life. And at its heart lie the sacred principles of tolerance and dialogue.

King Hussein I

#18. Was this what the city would look like when knowledge was no longer enough? When the desire to turn inward, surrendering entirely to one's own private world of nonresistance, overwhelmed, like creeping ivy, our desire to know worlds beyond it?

Olivia Sudjic

#19. If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation.

Ernest Newman

#20. I'm a one-woman man. Pretty much.

Robert Cray

#21. The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34

John Kay

#22. Therapy can't erase scars, it only makes it easier to live with them. - Duke

Stephanie Witter

#23. Home. Let me come home. Home is whenever I'm with you.

Edward Sharpe

#24. The reason why we find so many dark places in the Bible is, for the most part, because there are so many dark places in our hearts.

August Tholuck

#25. Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since.

Emma Thompson

#26. Was his death an essential stage in the continuation of his life?

Jonathan Safran Foer