Costumes Quotes - Page 10

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  Tamsin Egerton

  Dressing Up, Events, Evening

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• I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

  Ian Mckellen

  Brother, Doors, Feet

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• There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies - the dudes are idealized too.' And the thing is that the dudes are idealized for strength and the women are idealized for sexual availability. It's very, very different. The women's costumes are cut in such a way that I could give a cervical exam to 90% of our heroines. And I don't have a medical degree! So if I can find it, that's impressive.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Cutting, Availability, Giving

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• Glenn is going to bring a couple of sumo costumes down so we might have a dust-up in the technical area, that should make good TV

  Stuart Pearce

  Couple, Dust, Might

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• A perfume is like a piece of clothing, a message, a way of presenting oneself a costume that differs according to the woman who wears it.

  Paloma Picasso

  Pieces, Way, Messages

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• Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids know how to wear amazing costumes for Halloween. Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

  Suzy Kassem

  Halloween, Team, Mean

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• You can't get at the thing itself, the real nature of the sitter, by stripping away the surface. You can only get beyond the surface by working with the surface. All that you can do is manipulate that surface - gesture, costume, expression - radically and correctly.

  Richard Avedon

  Real, Expression, Gestures

  "Avedon's Women" by Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. December 13, 2013.

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• Voshak's hair, a pale blond braid, which he bleached, was his trademark. It made him memorable. That's how the slavers operated. They adopted costumes and personas, trying to make themselves larger-than-life and hoping to inspire fear. They counted on that fear. One could fight a man, but nobody could fight a nightmare.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fear, Memorable, Fighting

  Ilona Andrews (2012). “Steel's Edge”, p.41, Penguin

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• The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

  Mark Twain

  Country, Eye, Paris

  Mark Twain (1871). “The Innocents Abroad; Or, The New Pilgrim's Progress ...”, p.379

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• The film is a direct mirror of the director. If your director doesn't know how to dress, there will be an aesthetic of the film that won't come through - whether it's in the costumes if he doesn't know exactly what he wants or the look of the film.

  Channing Tatum

  Mirrors, Directors, Dresses

  "Channing Tatum Interview THE EAGLE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. February 9, 2011.

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• I think I've revived the costume-jewelry industry.

  Madeleine Albright

  Thinking, Jewelry, Industry

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• It can be a fascinating game, noticing how any person with vitality and vigor will have a little splash of red in a costume, in a room, or in a garden.

  Edgar Cayce

  Garden, Color, Games

  Edgar Cayce (1986). “The Edgar Cayce Collection: Four Volumes in One”, Random House Value Publishing

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• Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role is beckoning to us-to move, to take up its lines, put on its costumes and give it life. Indeed, we are the only ones who can play it. The role is to spark the tremendous latent strengths in the region surrounding us to create a great power, which will then rise up to a level of dignity and undertake a positive part in building the future of mankind.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Moving, Hero, Play

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• 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

  Sleep, Dancing, Priorities

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• I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.

  Vincent Cassel

  Kids, Dressing Up, Ideas

  "France's most wanted". Interview with Jason Solomons, www.theguardian.com. March 21, 2009.

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• At one point, I worked up a list of five requirements for a superhero: superpowers, a costume, a code name, a mission, and a milieu. If the character had three out of the five, they were a superhero. But that's just my definition.

  Kurt Busiek

  Character, Names, Superhero

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2001.

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• I was on holiday recently and I came home to find that one of the papers here had 'bikini'd' me on the beach. I was wearing a grossly unflattering costume and they had published photographs of me taken from behind. I looked dreadful. I went into our local newsagent and bought up every copy.

  Amanda Burton

  Beach, Taken, Home

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• Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.

  Tracie Bennett

  Beautiful, Black And White, Our World

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• 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

  Grateful, Engineering, Fur

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

  Caio Fonseca

  Brother, Sibling, Artist

  "Artists in Their Studios: Caio Fonseca". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.

  Dan Fogler

  Dream, Growing Up, Princess

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

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Looks, Faces, Periods

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• My first day on the set of 'John Adams', I was just supposed to fly to Virginia for a costume fitting. But the director figured, why not shoot it, too? So they threw me into a dress that didn't fit, gave me lines I hadn't seen, in a dialect I didn't know, and two screaming, arching infants.

  Mamie Gummer

  Virginia, Two, Directors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At school, there was an annual school disco and I'd be standing in my bedroom wondering what to wear for hours on end. Eventually I'd arrive at a decision that was just the most ridiculous costume you could have ever devised - I think it was probably knitted Christmas jumpers on top of buttoned-up white shirts.

  Guy Berryman

  School, Thinking, White

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• Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

  Spike Lee

  Editing, Acting, Way

  "Interview: Investigating ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + Lead Actors Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams". Interview with Zeba Blay, www.indiewire.com. June 26, 2014.

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