Tessa Thompson Quotes

I never pass up the chance to shop at vintage stores.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

I love wandering around the vintage shops.

I love thrifting.

I like to thrift. I think it's the funnest thing ever. But it's a sport: You have to wake up, eat, and then it's a whole day.

I remember going with my mom to a random garage sale as a kid and thinking what a cool treasure hunt that whole world was. Only to transition as an adult to think, 'What a gross place that really is.'

I like Goodwill and the thrift stores. I don't like going into a store and picking from a bunch of cute stuff that's already been found. One of the best parts is finding it myself.

I spent my teens and early 20s shopping almost exclusively at thrift stores.

I love clothing and still shop a lot of vintage.

I am something of an aficionado of thrift stores. In my youth, I regularly searched their shelves for old books.

I like finding things in locations where I've worked and things from down South and things from flea markets or even the sidewalks.

Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.

I like consignment stores.

I always feel with a vintage shop they've picked the best bits to show you whereas with charity shops you can find a real gem. My mum is amazing at it, she has hawk eyes, so I go with her and follow her lead!

I'm on tour all the time, so I stop at thrift shops. The minute we hit a town, I'll have my assistant Googling thrift stores. I have him go check beforehand; then we go there.

I love thrift shopping. You can get ten things because everything costs, like, three dollars.

I do a lot of thrifting, but I don't go shopping in a concerted way very often. I find things by accident that I can't talk myself out of, like armadillo purses.

This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

When I'm looking for something, I say, 'Man that's ugly - nobody would want to rock that.' Then I grab it and I put it on.

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

I love vintage shopping, I think it's really fun. And I love the feeling of finding the most amazing piece for less.

My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff.

If I'm going to try and find something, I stick to the flea markets, or I pull hand-me-downs from my family because I like pieces to have stories.

Some kids spent their allowance going to see 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom'; I spent mine on a great-looking lamp I'd found at the flea market and a ceramic bowl from a neighborhood garage sale.

I love to find a great vintage secondhand shop.