Costume Alterations Quotes

I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and... I just need to be comfortable.

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

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

The 'Game of Thrones' wardrobe department is so detail-oriented.

One of the challenges with period costumes is, on a technical level, making the scale of different periods work on contemporary bodies. We're much bigger than what people were in older times.

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.