Best 143 quotes in «costumes quotes» category

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

The beauty of the internal nature cannot be so far concealed by its accidental vesture, but that the spirit of its form shall communicate itself to the very disguise and indicate the shape it hides from the manner in which it is worn. A majestic form and graceful motions will express themselves through the most barbarous and tasteless costume.

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and needs.

The costumes, the light rigs and the effects are seamlessly joined. I'm kind of bummed that I don't get the experience that you get with just watching it cold. By the time we'd seen all the visuals put together, I'd sort of become used to that world. It's still pretty impressive.

The costume of women should be suited to her wants and necessities. It should conduce at once to her health, comfort, and usefulness; and, while it should not fail also to conduce to her personal adornment, it should make that end of secondary importance

There's nothing more fun than putting on an old costume and jewelry and being in a house that's decorated from the '20s or '30s or whatever.

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

There was a time when my mum would sew costumes for the dance studio so we could keep doing our classes because we couldn't afford them.

The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well.

The other thing is that when people mention computers - and I'm pretty much the same - they find it hard to comprehend that there's a performance there. They look at it as something that's just been made by a computer but in a way the difference is that when you make a normal film - and I'm simplifying it here - you put on the make-up and you put the scenery in before you start shooting, but with this you still perform in the same way but then you put the make-up on after, along with the costumes and scenery.

The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.

The threats against democracy today are in general completely normal. They walk around in costume and tie.

They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.

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.

We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.

Western Costume, and the old Universal wardrobe that is huge and they're getting rid of so much of it now, which is sad.

They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties. (on three of her weddings)

When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - bedraggled.

We used to say that inside Cecil Beaton there was another Cecil Beaton sending out lots of little Cecils into the world. One did the sets, another did the costumes. A third took the photographs. Another put the sketches in an exhibition, then into magazines, then in a book.

With everything that you do, once the costume is on, and you're in the pretend hospital, and you're there with your co-workers, it all sort of snaps into place: Who you are, what it feels like, who these people are to you.

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.

Young people, however, tend to ignore the customs of their elders. Adolescent rebellion has been responsible for all manner of absurd costumes. The more ridiculous a certain fashion is, the more adolescents will cling to it.

A real Bond girl wears so many skill hats...costumes are more like casual-chic code!

When all else fails, put on a costume and sing a silly song.

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

É engraçado como chegamos a conclusões muito diferentes quando questionamos um costume que já está arraigado em nossas entranhas. Você percebe que nem concorda com grande parte deles e que só continua fazendo algumas dessas coisas porque nunca as questionou.

You will hear words old and spent and useless like costumes left over from yesterday's parties.

As manias de um homem podem ser tão boas quanto as de qualquer outro, mas sempre gostamos mais das nossas

I know all their costumes by heart, and one day I'll be making-" "Costumes?! That's what you're into, their outfits? Oh God... you're not one of those cosplay chicks, are you?

Happy Valentine's... Let's wear costumes!

Having spent all of my decision-making years as a Pagan of one stripe or another, I have long found it condescending at best to assume one cannot worship the old gods or believe in magick without breaking out the leather bracers, wings, or Ye Broken Olde English.

Actually I have a tradition that I always steal my last costume on the last day of filming.

It seemed too as if many of the people were on display, behaving as if they expected to be looked at, as if they were on show: so many of them seemed to be wearing costumes, not just policemen and firemen and waiters and shop assistants, but people in their going-to-work costumes, their I'm-a-mother-pushing-a-pram costumes, babies and children in outfits that were like costumes; workers digging holes in their costume-bright orange vests; joggers in jogging costume; even the drinkers in the streets and parks, even the beggars, seemed to be wearing costumes, uniforms.

Onde a norma de conduta não é o próprio carácter, mas as tradições e costumes alheios, falta um dos principais ingredientes da felicidade humana e, de modo completo, o principal ingrediente do progresso individual e social.

Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.

If all superheroines were as indestructible as Superman, leaping across rooftops, smashing through windows, and flying through flames in a skimpy swimsuit wouldn't be such a problem. However, male heroes are usually presented as being unquestionably more powerful than women.Yet, they wear costumes that cover and protect most of their bodies. Women on the other hand, are written as weaker, and presumable less able to protect themselves. Yet they charge into battle with most of their bodies exposed............................................... ...............The reason for this superhero fashion double standard is that comic books have always been primarily targeted to a heterosexual male reader. As a result, female superheroes must look attractive to these readers. And in the world of male fantasy, attractive= sexy. So, revealing costumes are fitted onto idealized bodies with large breasts, tiny waists and impossible long legs. Men need to look powerful and virile, but can't display bulging genitalia showing through their spandex, as it would be too threatening for most straight male readers.

Typically, in politics, more than one horse is owned and managed by the same team in an election. There's always and extra candidate who will slightly mimic the views of their team's opposing horse, to cancel out that person by stealing their votes just so the main horse can win. Elections are puppet shows. Regardless of their rainbow coats and many smiles, the agenda is one and the same.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

And that's when I realized, when you're a kid you don't need a costume, you ARE superman.

A good style fits like a good costume.

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)[...].

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

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.

Costume jewelry is not made to give women an aura of wealth, but to make them beautifu

Costumes and scenery alone will not attract audiences.

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

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

Dave and Tate were dressed with equal heinousness. More black leather, chains, and whips. Either Don’s staff truly had costumes for all possible occasions on hand, or someone at wardrobe had a lot of explaining to do.

Debased men, but they all had something in common: They showed a keen regard for virtue, and tried to dress themselves in that costume. Hypocrisy, for all its bad reputation, at least showed a decent respect for goodness.