Quotes by Edith Head - Page 1

Some people need sequins, others don't.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Needs
People
Sequins
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Life is competitive; clothes gird us for the competition.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Clothes
Competition
Life Is
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You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Inspiring
Dresses
Fashion
Icons
Want
Anything
You
Dress
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Design
Clothes
Designer
Designer Clothes
Fashion
Stars
Star
Wears
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for Lassie.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Lassie
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There are three fashion periods: the past, the present and Mae West.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Fashion
Past
Three
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Many women dress for men before marriage, and for women after marriage.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Men
Clothes
Dresses
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My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Actors
Audience
Clothes
Motto
My Motto
Notice
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There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Movie
Matter
Movie Star
Size
Stars
Star
Standard
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Just imagine dressing the two handsomest men in the world, and then getting this!
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Men
Two
World
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals-like Lassie.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Animal
Dog
Stars
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I have yet to see one completely unspoiled star, except for the animals - like Lassie.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Lassie
Animals
Except
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Fashion is a language. Some know it, some learn it, some never will - like an instinct.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Fashion
Instinct
Language
Will Never Know
Learn
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The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Cardinals
Clothes
Sin
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A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Eyebrows
Fashion
Icons
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Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Jobs
Trying
Want
Complete
Intend
Outfit
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Dresses
Enough
Should
Woman
Lady
Loose
Tight
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Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Beautiful
Covered
Instance
Legs
Looks
Beautiful Most Beautiful Look
Marlene
Most Beautiful
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We ask the public to believe that every time they see an actress or actor that they are a different person.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Actors
Believe
Different
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Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Clothes
Leather Pants
Two
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With women, there's a basic female instinct of caring deeply about the way they look; women stars have a narcissist complex.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Caring
Female
Instinct
Narcissist
Stars
Basic
Complex
Deeply
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You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Horse
Want
Water
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Many faux pas of fashion can be avoided if you curb your instinctive desire to buy things with your heart instead of your head.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Avoided
Curb
Desire
Fashion
Faux
Heart
Instinctive
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The subjective actress thinks of clothes only as they apply to her; the objective actress thinks of them only as they affect others, as a tool for the job.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Jobs
Clothes
Thinking
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Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Growing
Growing Old
Plastic
Thanks
Today
Prefer
Designers
Gracefully
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Every different director has another language - for instance, Hitchcock does not like any bright color ever, unless the story says 'there goes the girl in a red dress.'
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Hitchcock
Instance
Bright
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I assure you that even the most beautiful women are not pretty all over. They have merely learned to use clothes deftly enough to give others the impression that they are.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Beautiful
Clothes
Giving
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We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Depressing
Fabulous
Fantasy
Glamorous
Last Time
Musical
Realistic
Today
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Couture has copied my things for years, in addition to countless other costume designers, claiming theirs were the original ideas. It's all part of the business, unfortunately.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Costumes
Couture
Ideas
Original Ideas
Years
Addition
Original
Claiming
Copied
Costume
Designers
Unfortunately
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Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Clothes
Thinking
World
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Building a proper wardrobe is like building a home. Indeed, you should think of it like a home, because it is something you're going to live in. It must be comfortable and suit all your needs.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Home
Building
Comfortable
Needs
Should
Thinking
Wardrobe
Because
Must
Indeed
Proper
Something
Suit
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I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Black Or White
Competing
Fitting
Looks
Mirrors
Stars
White
Good Mirror Look
Beside
Star
Mirror
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As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Adore
Lingerie
Shoes
Suitable
Weakness
Buy
Clothing
Wear
Outer
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I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, 'Grace Kelly.' She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Charming
Gifted
Grace
Actor
Animals
Asked
Favorite
Star
Friend
Dressed
Valued
Lady
Personal
Thousands
Whenever
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I've dressed thousands of actors, actresses and animals, but whenever I am asked which star is my personal favorite, I answer, "Grace Kelly." She is a charming lady, a most gifted actress and, to me, a valued friend.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Animal
Grace
Stars
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built wardrobe on a limited budget. 'Money,' I tell them, 'is no guarantee of taste, and an overstuffed wardrobe is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel.'
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Apparel
Taste
Wardrobe
Asked
Bare
Budget
Guarantee
Limited
No Guarantee
Skeleton
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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 / Costume Designer
Believe
Doe
Magic
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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 / Costume Designer
Camouflage
Designer
Different
Illusion
Magic
Ask
Person
Actor
Does
Between
Changing
Costume
Public
Create
Cross
Different Person
Every Time
Performer
Screen
See
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Many women have asked me if it is possible to have a well-built complete wardrobe on a limited budget. "Money," I tell them, "is no guarantee of taste and the fitness of things, and an overstuffed closet is often as bare as a skeleton when it comes to wearable apparel."
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Guarantees
Skeletons
Taste
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If you hunger for certain types of clothes, for which you have little use, put yourself on a diet. Just as you resist too much whipped cream and French pastry to keep your figure in shape, you can say no to those yearned-for but unneeded purchases that lead to a wardrobe that is shapeless and without form.
Edith Head / Costume Designer
Diet
Clothes
Cream
Hunger
Shapes
Too Much
Use
Wardrobe
Yourself Your Keep
French
Figure
Lead
Pastry
Resist
Purchases
Shape
Types
Whipped
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