Period Costume Quotes & Sayings

I think the thing that would interest me would be to appear in a period piece where you'd get to dress in an elaborate costume and say nothing but just look fabulous and have a fancy role. — Ian Astbury

The world is still very bigoted. — Katherine Heigl

Put me in a costume, and I'm your man. I must have one of those faces which seems to suit period drama more than modern films and TV programmes. But I'm not complaining, I love going back in time. I feel quite lucky because nobody knows who I am. I can walk about and have ordinary conversations with people. — Hans Matheson

(On period costume posture coaching
We all stand about like parboiled spaghetti being straightened out. — Emma Thompson

Now," said Brandons low, cold voice. "Lets not be rude eve. — Rachel Caine

It's not just that we all as individuals should reevaluate our relationship with our devices - maybe you should, on a personal level - but in terms of balancing the micro and the macro and the personal and the structural, it's actually a bigger issue than you and your phone addiction. — Astra Taylor

In a word, God paints in many colors; but he never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white. In a sense our age has realized this fact, and expressed it in our sullen costume. For if it were really true that white was a blank and colorless thing, negative and non-committal, then white would be used instead of black and grey for the funereal dress of this pessimistic period. Which is not the case.
Meanwhile I could not find my chalk. — G.K. Chesterton

As soon as I see period costume, I turn off. It's like hearing drama on Radio 4. — Steve Coogan

All the actors I've worked with as a director over the years I really love and I thought they were all right for the part. — Billy Bob Thornton

Language designers want to design the perfect language. They want to be able to say, 'My language is perfect. It can do everything.' But it's just plain impossible to design a perfect language, because there are two ways to look at a language. One way is by looking at what can be done with that language. The other is by looking at how we feel using that language-how we feel while programming. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

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

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation. — Ernest Newman

Part of being human is that we can't go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again we'll do it the right way. — Jesse Lacey

The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend. — Benjamin Graham

Jane reminds us that God is in his heaven, the monarch on his throne and the pelvis firmly beneath the ribcage. Apparently rock and roll liberated the pelvis and it hasn't been the same since. — Emma Thompson

Thinkin' of a master plan
Cause ain't nothin' but sweat inside my hand. — Rakim

The only thing we got to keep were our memories, and now I was about to take those from him, too.
"Close your eyes," I whispered. "I' going to finish the story. — Alexandra Bracken

Period costume films are fun to discover, but they're not relatable. It's more, 'Wow, that's cool - did it really look like that back then?' Whereas with a comedy, you're like, 'Yeah, that's me, that's my friends.' No matter what, I want people to relate. — Paul Feig

I've done a lot of costume drama and theatre - the National Theatre and In fact, most of my work at the theatre, at the National Theatre anyway, was period. — Brenda Blethyn

None of my costume designers have ever been nominated for an Oscar 'cause I don't do period movies that have ball scenes with a hundred extras in them. — Quentin Tarantino

This is about me being ready to succeed.
When I win in my mind, I truly win.
Anything worthwhile deserves some time.
I will do it this time! No excuses! — Lorii Myers

You know what else I've learnt? That it's all right not to ride the crest of the wave. Every time a wave comes along I retreat, and I haven't come to any harm yet. — Jennifer Ehle

It is only in the case of the Priestly Code that opinions differ widely; for it tries hard to imitate the costume of the Mosaic period, and, with whatever success, to disguise its own. — Julius Wellhausen

I do wish men, when they're taking their leave from a lady at dawn, wouldn't insist on adjusting their clothes to a nicety, or fussily tying their lacquered cap securely into place. After all, who would laugh at a man or criticize him if they happened to catch sight of him on his way home from an assignation in fearful disarray, with his cloak or hunting costume all awry? — Sei Shonagon

He is no better than anybody else that I can see, and he is beginning to give himself airs, — Anthony Trollope

My guilty pleasure is sugar. — Behati Prinsloo

I love costume dramas, I love performing in them, because in a funny kind of way, you feel more free. You know about the period, you can read the books, you can see the paintings, but you've never actually going to know what it was like. You can kind of stretch those boundaries a bit. — Keira Knightley

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

If you're not falling, you're not training hard enough. — Michelle Trachtenberg

Parties are not my thing; I keep it low-key. — Greg Wise