This collection holds 365 costume quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Sam Shepard, Melissa Leo and Donald O'connor.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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I don't attend costume parties.

You have to let the costume inform you.

Doing those costume pictures was wonderful.

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

I had to dance in a Tweety Bird costume once.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

The worst costume is when you don't have a costume.

I can still fit into my Battlestar Galactica costume!

I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.

When you're young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.

If I'm going to rehearse, I don't necessarily rehearse in costume.

Courtney isn't just a costume, it's a way I express my femininity.

Australia has produced amazing costume designers that are unheralded.

Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.

We would change out of costume, then we would read the next days script.

You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.

I have the whole costume from Playboy's sixtieth-anniversary cover shoot.

Putting a wig on and a costume and doing a wacky character is always fun.

Costume people are always saying they don't have clothes big enough for me.

I'm able to hang up the character with the costume at the end of the movie.

Ultimately, we're actors: I'm putting on a costume, so we're playing pretend.

This is my costume. I'm a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.

I'm thinking about entering a Marilyn Manson costume contest to see if I lose.

I've always wanted to be Wonder Woman, of course. She had the greatest costume.

I love costume jewelry, because, listen, you can't pick a real jewel every day.

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

My tastes formed quite early. All I ever wanted to do was go to costume museums.

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

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

Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.

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

I'm not going to become a costume version or caricature of myself; I like to morph.

I knew I would grow up and wear a costume one day, and that's exactly what happened.

I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

Costume is always the first layer of armour for going into battle in a new acting job.

I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.

I definitely feel, when I'm wearing the costume, that I could scare people and hurt them.

If there's room for 30 reality shows, surely there's room for two amazing costume dramas.

I mean, I'm a drag queen, any excuse to wear a costume means it's going to be a good time.

It's just really so important for an actor to be in the right costume for their character.

I'd love to do a costume drama movie. For no other reason, except that it sounds fun to me.

I'm a costume designer. My career is not in fashion, a field I'm basically unfamiliar with.

I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'

In a costume, you need very exaggerated body language - as you say, sort of mime-type skills.

I was in fittings for the first costume even before I knew I was even going to be 'Deathlok.'

I used the same designer and costume designer on 'The Eagle' and 'The Last King of Scotland.'

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

Nobody beats Superman. Everybody else needs a costume - Superman needs a costume to be normal.

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