Costume Importance Quotes

In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.

Everybody knows how important clothes are, for yourself as a person, and of course for a character it is the same. It's everything.

Some actors start with the right shoes. I start with the right hats.

I always love costume, and I'm always heavily involved in how things should look. Or how they should feel really, because that's part of the way I suppose I get into character in some ways. It's a lot about costume.

The worst costume is when you don't have a costume.

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

I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!

For me the costume is always a huge part of getting into character.

Costume is always an asset. Normal costume you have a lot to say about - if you're wearing suits or ties, and what color you want, and how it's going to be cut, and stuff like that, and whether or not you're going to wear a hat, and blah, blah, blah. But, when you're wearing a special costume, and of course, costume is probably the second ingredient in character, script being first, I always find that the costume does a lot to cement your character, to put it firmly in mind.