Nico Santos Quotes

I went to school for clothing and textiles and thought this is what I was going to do. Then I started working in costumes and literally said, 'I don't know if I can take the actors.'

One of my favourite parts of acting is the clothes that you get to wear, because it's very important.

Costume design allows you to do a different type of research and create characters, whereas in fashion, you create an image and clothing for the masses.

I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.

My girlfriend's a costume designer in the theater.

But I've always loved the whole costuming part of acting.

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

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.

Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.

I don't have the time to design my own costumes, but I do give suggestions and style tips.

I started doing regional theater. My first job was 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at Dallas Theater Center.

I have worked with some of the most amazing costume designers in the world.

There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

In productions such as 'Anna Bolena' and 'Rigoletto,' the costumes are tailored, and they're tight. In 'Moby,' it's like you're wearing pajamas, and you have more freedom. It's very comfortable on stage.

I think wardrobe is a really important part of making a movie and developing the character.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with the people.

A film is a great deal about what you see, and the silhouette of a character tells you a lot. I'd love to go into film costume.

I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

I'm a pain in the ass to all of the costume designers with whom I work because I have very strong feelings about the subject.

Live theater is my favorite of all the mediums that I have worked in, so I have every intention on coming back to Broadway.

It actually is as fun to make men's costumes, especially if they are as good-looking as Chris Hemsworth.

I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.

I love working in the theater.

I've done a few costume dramas, and people say, 'What was it like wearing the costumes? Did they really help you with your character?,' and most of the time it doesn't make any difference. You're wearing something a bit weird, and it's sort of uncomfortable, but it doesn't really have a huge impact on the part that you're playing.