Perdita Weeks Quotes

With corsets, it's interesting when you put them on, realizing that's what women actually wore. They're just so constricting.

I love a good corset.

I had a dresser who literally squeezed me in like Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With The Wind.

I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.

The stationmaster's whiskers are of a Victorian bushiness and give the impression of having been grown under glass.

My favourite men's clothes are like Victorian British clothing.

Corsets do look so pretty. Once I watched it, I was like, "Well, they do look nicer than the way I do normally," but they're really uncomfortable. You start to realize why women would pass out. We had the real ones, and they were just awful. At one point, I was like, "I think that's my spleen that this is digging into." So, if I had a nightgown, that was always really comfy. I had a few coats that I thought were pretty cool.

Corsets are always hard to wear.

I had a non-existent knowledge of Queen Victoria's early years. Like everyone else, I thought of her as an old lady dressed in black. My mom had told me about her, though, that she had a very loving relationship with Albert, that they had lots of kids, and that he died young.

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

My great-grandfather was in the army in India, and we have photographs of my family there in full Victorian dress. They're incredibly romantic.

I've met more than one person in their early 20s who has never heard of Jackie Onassis, though most girls have because she exists as a fashion icon.

I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am really into hair. I'm a real girly girl and love doing my hair and experimenting with different styles.

When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

The Victorian era is the sexiest age for me, but I also like a woman in a pair of jeans.

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

Corsetry is a body modification.

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.

I wanted to be Cher for a long time, but not for the singing. I just thought she was so cool. I wanted her long hair, and I wanted to weigh five pounds.

Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.