Costumes Quotes

• Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

  Mason Cooley

  Inspirational, Halloween, Autumn

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• Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

  Colleen Atwood

  Character, First Impression, Doe

  Personal Quote, www.imdb.com.

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• Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

  Jane Levy

  Character, Body, Turns

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• Costumes are so much better than clothes. They're like drugs, they change your personality.

  Mary Woronov

  Clothes, Personality, Drug

  Mary Woronov (2000). “Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory”, Serpents Tail

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• In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

  Molly Parker

  Things In Life, People, Who We Are

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• Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

  Anna Held

  Scenery, Audience

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• If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.

  Douglas Coupland

  Courage, Halloween, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.23, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Change, Death, Character

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• You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

  Zig Ziglar

  Motivational, Attitude, Failure

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• There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume.

  Morgan Freeman

  Lines, Mystery, Complicated

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• Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).

  Harold Rosenberg

  Struggle, Self, Numbers

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• Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

  Lucy Liu

  Character, Language

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• 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

  Photography, Directors, Looks

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• The only difference is that religion is much better organized and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.

  James Randi

  Character, Differences, Different

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• Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Failure, Funny Graduation, Pockets

  "Six Rules on How to Be Successful". Speech at the University of Southern California, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 15, 2009.

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• I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.

  Lee Meriwether

  Thinking, Fit

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• O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.

  Leo Rosten

  Children, Simple, Play

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• My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.

  Brenda Holloway

  Sex, Made, Appeals

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• You never know when you're going to get an opportunity.

  Dwight Henry

  Opportunity, Flea Markets, Tough Moments

  "Dwight Henry, ‘Beasts Of The Southern Wild’ Star, Discusses His Journey From Unknown Baker To Acclaimed Actor". Interview With Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2012.

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• It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Clothes, Addiction, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sarcasm, Unemployment

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• It was something I was more interested in myself. When I went to see my sister dance at ballet, I was really into costumes and the arts, and my family was also supportive of whatever me and my sister wanted to do. I would say I pushed myself the most to be into design.

  Christian Siriano

  Art, Design, Ballet

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• 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 Kaufman

  Special, Imagine, Designer

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• I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

  Meryl Streep

  Strong, Pain, Feelings

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• I hate the terminology of "costume" because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they're high fashion, avant-garde, and more couture, definitely, and yes, some of my pieces are not particularly wearable, but I wouldn't say they're costumes, I'd say they're more couture.

  Christian Siriano

  Fashion, Hate, Thinking

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