Colleen Atwood Quotes

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

I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert - all that I love. To make a movie myself... no!

I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.

I would love, just once, to do costumes for a movie. I almost did some theater, but it is very different from what I am used to doing as a fashion designer.

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

I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

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.

I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'

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.

You can't do a machine without knowing something about how it's going to work. As for the romantics, the costumes bored me and I don't enjoy doing period clothes.

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

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

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

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

I didn't want to do Chekhov or Shakespeare. So I switched my major from acting to costume design. Eventually, I got a job working as a wardrobe assistant for a theater company. I would dress the actors, fix their costumes, do the quick changes for them and all that stuff.

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

My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was born.

I've always known that I wanted to do something in entertainment and fashion.

Growing up, I remember planning for Halloween months in advance. It was, after all, my chance to be creative, artsy, original, and to just have fun!

On-screen wardrobes are important. They help create an overall aura, and with local productions being viewed all around the globe, they represent our aesthetics to the world.

Shooting a movie should be fun! It's not a real job. It can be hard, but at the end of the day, we're dressing up and playing pretend.

No offense to real jobs, but comics seemed a lot more fun.

Sometimes I just do costumes, sometimes I just do fashion, and sometimes I blend the two.

I'm knee-deep into fashion; I'm knee-deep into movies.

In high school, I had a singing group, and I designed the outfits and made my friends' prom dresses.