Quotes About Dressing Up

“I'm not a big fan of Halloween. Except for the dressing up part. I love picking out a costume. - Tory”

— Matthew Leeth

“Rather than campaigning to help women, feminists today are more likely to be picking fights on Twitter, or dressing up petty grievances as proof of rampant 'sexism'.”

— Angela Epstein

“First of all, I think that sex, like love, is a sacred thing..if I were going to live beyond puberty, it would be really important to me to keep sex as a sort of marvelous sacrament. And secondly, a teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and sleeping around is going to propel you into a state of full adulthood, that's like thinking that dressing up as an Indian is going to make you an Indian. And thirdly, it's a really weird way of looking at life to want to become an adult by imitating everything that is most catastrophic about adulthood.”

— Muriel Barbery

“A teenager who pretends to be an adult is still a teenager. If you imagine that getting high at a party and sleeping around is going to propel you into a state of adulthood, that's like thinking that dressing up as an Indian is going to make you an Indian.”

— Muriel Barbery

“I'm not vain - I just love make-up and dressing up.”

— Abbey Clancy

“Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.”

— Katharine Hepburn

“It is joyous for any actor to enter other grounds of consciousness and thought. At the end of the day, we just all like dressing up and playing around.”

— Rhys Ifans

“I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote 'Wuthering Heights,' I told my boyfriend beforehand 'I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.' Actually once I was there, it was fine.”

— Kaya Scodelario

“My parents read me fairy tales every night and I used to believe I was a fairytale princess, like every young girl. I had all the Disney dressing-up costumes and would play every character.”

— Lily Collins

“I don't believe in dressing up reality. I don't believe in using makeup to make things look smoother.”

— Lou Reed

“I love dressing up. I like going out and buying some crazy stuff. I like stuff that's new, innovative and weird. I just pick out stuff that is unique and anything that I'm really diggin'. I don't really care if it's kind of out there. That's what I'm about. I like picking stuff that is really different.”

— Roshon Fegan

“I hate parties. I really don't like public events. I hate dressing up. I am the worst celebrity ever!”

— Stockard Channing

“Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.”

— Hugo Weaving

“I always look forward to the holidays because I love dressing up in festive, shimmery evening dresses.”

— Hilary Rhoda

“I finally learned to love myself by dressing up as Geri Halliwell.”

— Matt Lucas

“I was quite bright, but I didn't do much with it, and I thought acting was dressing up and shouting for a living - which, of course, it isn't.”

— Michelle Gomez

“At the end of the day, I know that I make my living by dressing up, fooling around, playing pranks and giving people a good time. I am enjoying the ride.”

— Cyrus Broacha

“Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starched collar every day, and that was fine with me: Part of the reason I wanted to go there was because I've always loved dressing up.”

— Charlie Siem

“I've always been into fashion since I was a kid. I love fashion. I appreciate it. I just enjoy dressing up and getting all the new sneakers and all the hot exclusive clothes - I did even when I was young.”

— Nayvadius Cash

“I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.”

— Dita Von Teese

“If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.”

— Dolly Parton

“I think I'd just like to get in a time machine and travel and never come back. The '20s would be an incredible place to be, dressing up in tuxedos with fancy cars. That sounds incredible.”

— Victor Webster

“This is who Ezra is dating now. He is now into girls who are into dressing up as nineteenth century prostitutes. For the hats.”

— Leila Sales

“I'm an actor, that's what I do every day. Dressing up is part of my job. But whatever you wear you should always be yourself: never go totally with the fashion but use what there is available to be an individual.”

— Vincent Cassel

“I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl.”

— Joanne Froggatt

“I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.”

— Olivia Munn

“I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.”

— J. Courtney Sullivan

“Dressing up is like therapy; I feel better in myself when I've made an effort.”

— Paloma Faith

“I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.”

— Drea De Matteo

“I don't like dressing up, and I don't like putting on make-up or doing the red carpet. The only red carpet events I go to are if I'm supporting a friend.”

— Gina Bellman

“It is London fashion week, and once again I haven't been invited to any shows. This is upsetting given my well-known love of fashion, or, as I think of it, playing with the dressing-up box.”

— Arthur Smith

“If you are a girl dressing up in the morning thinking about the whole world having a point of view on what you are wearing, it takes the pleasure out of getting dressed.”

— Olivier Theyskens

“In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.”

— Rob Sheffield

“Of all the things I do, acting is the thing that grabs most, but there's another level on which it strikes me as being a little silly. In the end you're dressing up and deciding to be somebody.”

— Jane Asher

“I don't really like dressing up. Some people probably think actresses dress up everywhere they go. I'm in sweatpants half the time with my hair in a ponytail.”

— Selena Gomez

“When I was in school, I was always writing scripts and dressing up as characters. I'd constantly be that guy who'd get up on stage. I used to write imaginary TV shows, like soap operas, for fun.”

— Chris Lilley

“I love dressing up. I have people helping me with it. I am not going to take credit for that. I have a stylist, make-up and hair stylist.”

— Sonam Kapoor

“As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.”

— Felicity Jones

“I always had a love of music, from the time I was a little kid, dressing up and singing along with Michael Jackson songs.”

— Matisyahu

“It's not just that," Chief Porter said. "A guy who once would have raped and killed a woman, now a lot of times he also has to cut off her lips and mail them to us or take her eyes for a souvenir and keep them in his freezer at home. There's more flamboyant craziness these days." Giving the buttered cinnamon roll a reprieve, Ozzie said, "Maybe it's all these superhero movies with all their supervillains. Some psychopath who used to be satisfied raping and murdering, these days he thinks that he should be in a Batman movie, he wants to be the Joker or the Penguin." "No real-life bad guy wants to be the Penguin," I assured him. "Norman Bates was happy just dressing up like his mother and stabbing people," Chief Porter said, "but Hannibal Lecter has to cut off their faces and eat their livers with fava beans. The role models have become more intense.”

— Dean Koontz

“I love glamorous women. Hugh adores glamour, as well. Im completely behind women dressing up and looking as good as they can.”

— Elizabeth Hurley

“I have no problem dressing up ... because I know I'm a nice-looking guy. But as far as chains, I definitely feel that's a racial statement. Almost 100% of the guys in the league who are young and black wear big chains. So I definitely don't agree with that at all.”

— Stephen Jackson

“I've done a couple of fan conventions and [the fans] are legion. They're rather like Star Wars or Star Trek fans. We're very glad of the loyal fans - but it's a strange way to spend your life, dressing up like Star Wars. At least we change our costumes - I don't spend 40 years dressed up as Tywin Lannister.”

— Charles Dance

“The idea of full dress for preparation for a battle comes not from a belief that it will add to the fighting ability. The preparation is for death, in case that should be the result of conflict. Every Indian wants to look his best when he goes to meet the great Spirit, so the dressing up is done whether in imminent danger is an oncoming battle or a sickness or injury at times of peace.”

— Wooden Leg

“As far back as I can ever remember, without really knowing it I wanted to be an actor. I was always dressing up, you know, playing pretend, putting on mothers hats and things. I'm sure Freud would have something to say about that. It was very much in my blood.”

— Peter Cushing

“I love informality. I hate dressing up. I hate to be conventional - and I hate every kind of snob.”

— Orson Welles

“I am a southern guy who likes dressing up and looking sharp but who lives a busy life of working and traveling, and I need reliable, stylish pieces in my wardrobe that will service multiple occasions.”

— Cam Newton

“I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.”

— Rachel Zucker

“You look green, immature. A young boy playing at business, dressing up in the manner in which he believes an actual grown-up would. Your viewpoint of business attire is one of wide-eyed wonder from the nursery door.”

— Chris Murray

“I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.”

— Kylie Minogue