Best 143 quotes in «costumes quotes» category

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.

My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids.

My costumes were made for sex appeal not for women.

My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

No, officer, I have no idea why I'm wearing this possum costume. I called you what? OH. My bad." -Nastasya

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.

Nudity is the costume of lovers and corpses.

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.

Relieved of moral pretense and stripped of folk costumes, the raw masculinity that all men know in their gut has to do with being good at being a man within a small, embattled gang of men struggling to survive.

Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume.

Now what else is the whole life of mortals, but a sort of comedy in which the various actors, disguised by various costumes and masks, walk on and play each ones part until the manager walks them off the stage?

Shigure Sohma: [got Tohru a maid costume for White Day] I can't wait to for her to call me master while wearing this. Hatsuharu Sohma: Just don't get arrested, okay?

Someone once bought me loads of clothes from a charity shop - and sent them to me in a black bin liner. That was weird. I went through it and it was full of bizarre outfits like Abba costumes.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to a deed.

Someone's going to put the clothes on you, and part of being an actor is wearing costumes. Costumes tell you an awful lot about who you are, so you just, it's nothing.

Somewhere in the back of my brain there exists this certainty: The body is no more than a costume, and can be changed at will. That the changing of bodies, like costumes, would make me into a different character, a character who might, finally, be alright.

Sometimes I steal costumes.

Steampunk is...the love child of Hot Topic and a BBC costume drama

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.

Strip is the power. I'm ready to strip... I think everyone is. In that I'm saying I think everyone is ready to take off masks and pretentious costumes that don't represent who they truly are.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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