Costume Designer Quotes & Sayings

I don't ever want to read a book with the word globe in it again. — Caris O'Malley

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

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. — Jonathan Tropper

Life is a process, not an endpoint. — Sig Nilsson

I don't gravitate toward any one designer because I think of fashion as the costume of the everyday woman. — Kerry Washington

I insist on keeping a level head. I've maintained the same exact home life that I've had for 20 years. All I see is more people looking at me than before. But, you know, who cares? You just can't obsess yourself with this fame stuff. — Leonardo DiCaprio

America is a nation created by all the hopeful wanderers of Europe, not out of geography and genetics, but out of purpose. — Theodore White

As a costume designer, it's important to give each person his or her own personalized look. — Eric Daman

Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand ... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even than Greek literature. — G.H. Hardy

I'm 50. And I'm not ever really worried about being trendy. — Neneh Cherry

As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop. — Patricia Norris

I was pretty tough and serious in my 20s. — Britta Phillips

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater. — Philip Seymour Hoffman

Camo never goes out of style as far as I'm concerned. — Joy Bryant

Which is an interactive sport for our family, since Gil likes to groan over the writing and point out the plot twists ahead of time, and Jeremy tears his hair out over the historical inaccuracies, and Dad makes corny jokes, till Mom reminds us, loudly, that some people are trying to watch the movie. Then we'll all quiet down for about five minutes, until Olivia remarks that the costume designer should have dressed the star in kitten heels instead, because it's a lot harder to run in stilettos. — Caitlen Rubino-Bradway

Ngila Dixon is such an incredible costume designer. She's such a cool, stylish woman. She has such an understanding of character. — Blake Lively

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

I graduated from Academy of Fashion and Costume Design in Rome. At first, I thought I was going to be a costume designer for films, and then I ended up working in fashion - not as a designer, but mostly as a model. — Isabella Rossellini

Bragging about winning porn awards is like showing mommy what you did in the toilet. — Tyler Knight

Every movie I work with the costume designer to see what feels like the character, not what Columbus would wear but what is right for the character. Outside of the armored truck standard issue security guard uniform, this guy is trying to make ends meet. He might have one pair of jeans, the same boot, maybe changes his shirt but he doesn't have a walk-in closet full of things, so I wanted something comfortable that felt like the character. — Columbus Short

The hats are tough. I've got a weird head, so believe me, there were a lot of hats. Penny [Rose], our costume designer, who I knew from other jobs said, "Badge, that looks terrible on you. Hold on. No, we can't do that one." — James Badge Dale

The costume designer, her name is Anne Hardinge. She's done "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz." She's really comedic costume designer, which was right up my alley. She was a joy to work with. She was like fabulous Geena Davis. She was just floating with her red lip and kind of fabulous. — Jerusha Hess

I love mixing prints. The costume designer for 'Pair of Kings' and I have actually incorporated the trend for my character 'Mikayla.' — Kelsey Chow

Only dedication to God's calling can make you say a firm "no" to everything that is in the way of its fulfillment. — Sunday Adelaja

Poor kids often dressed up. It was rich kids who dressed down, carefully assembling a blue-collar costume: eighty-dollar designer jeans that had been professionally faded and tattered and worn-out — Joe Hill

The thing that's great about being a costume designer is you never know what's going to be next; you never what world you are going to enter. — Colleen Atwood

The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me. — Bill Vaughan

I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer. — Georgina Chapman

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. — Vincent Paronnaud

The memories still seemed to haunt me at a moment's notice. — Cambria Hebert

Be able to take any job that gives you experience on a film. Don't just think that you have to be in one department or the other, because through working on one and seeing what other people do in the movie makes you realize what your role is if you become a costume designer. — Colleen Atwood

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Helena Bonham-Carter and I sat down to talk about [Cinderella movie] and she said, 'I really want to do it but only one thing I insist on and that's wings.' She had to have wings and [costume designer] Sandy Powell didn't want wings to begin with but had to be talked around, but that was fun. — Kenneth Branagh

There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a very close association between costume and set designer, though. And the cameraman is very important, of course. — Terence Fisher

I'd love to go to fashion week! I'm learning more about designers, thanks to 'Pretty Little Liars' costume designer, Mandi Line. — Lucy Hale

I was at the beginning stages of my pregnancy, and it never really feels real anyway, until you actually start showing and you start to feel the baby kick. Fortunately I didn't have any morning sickness or anything like that. And I really didn't want to be distracted from the work at hand, so I didn't tell anybody. It was really just towards the end of shooting where I was about five months, where I needed to tell a costume designer[ of the True Detective]. — Michelle Monaghan

If someone wants to be in your life they will find you. If they don't they will find an excuse. — Shannon L. Alder

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer. — Adam Lambert

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

The world 's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill. — Thomas Heywood

You get to say, 'Here's my philosophical idea about what the costume should like,' and the costume designer comes and gives you choices and sometimes they're all good, and I say, 'What do you think?' and they pick the right thing. — John Sayles

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen, he's become a different person. — Edith Head

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 R. Kaufman