Adrian Anthony Gill Quotes

A suit is a sign of respect.

If you don't take your clothes seriously, why should your viewers take you seriously?

In my experience, women who are taken seriously take themselves seriously. It's not what you wear.

For stage I try to dress down, because I want people to take me seriously.

You can propose marriage naked or in handcuffs, but no one is going to agree to forsake all others for a man in shorts. You can't declare war in shorts or deliver a eulogy in shorts.

Wearing a suit can seem like a somewhat archaic gesture, a concession to formality in a determinedly casual age.

People don't take you seriously, so you have to take yourself seriously.

I don't do interviews without a collared shirt.

For someone to be taken seriously it was valuable to have the appearance of someone who deserved to be taken seriously.

I know there are, like, 12 rules for late night: a desk, a band. Will people take me seriously if I don't wear a tie?

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

When one shows up in jeans and a T-shirt, I strongly feel that the audience reacts in a very different way than when you show up in a sport coat and a tie.

In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

With a suit, even if you're having a nervous breakdown, you still look like you're in charge.

People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I love a man in a suit. Men should stay clothed, even if they have nice bodies.

When you see all the suits in the room, everybody in the room has on suits, you know, the women, too. We're not wearing dresses and chiffon and we're not as fun as we used to be.

I believe in dressing for the occasion. There's a time for sweater, sneakers and Levis and a time for the full-dress jazz.

I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously

It's kind of really fun to get to dress up, because you take yourself a little more seriously if you dress nice in a starched shirt.