Halloween Dress Up Quotes

“What was it about Halloween that gave every girl license to dress as slutty as possible?”

— Kim Askew

“I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.”

— Douglas Coupland

“Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year's Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They're as bad as the people who need St. Patty's Day as an excuse to get drunk or Halloween to wear slutty outfits. You can feel sorry for yourself and dress like a hooker all year round: Hallmark never needs to know.”

— Julie Klausner

“Every Halloween I missed being a kid, getting to dress up and eat tons of candy. The only thing I got to do now was ... eat tones of Candy. Not half bad”

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

“I actually have a stash of wigs for Halloween. But only for that. Not to play dress-up.”

— Alexa Vega

“I don't really dress up for Halloween.”

— Katharine McPhee

“I refuse to dress 'hot' for Halloween, 'cause I always have to have makeup and hair and look cute for my job. So on Halloween, I either go gory or weird or funny.”

— Rachel Platten

“I would love if gay men responded to me. All I want is for many gay men to dress up as me for Halloween.”

— Mindy Kaling

“I had this grand idea that Elvira's kind of the Santa Claus of Halloween - at the malls, you'd have an Elvira there. Girls would dress as Elvira just like guys dress as Santa Claus, and it's not the real thing, but they'll pose for pictures, sign autographs. Of course, I couldn't go around to every mall, so we'd have to get more Elviras.”

— Cassandra Peterson

“I do love horror movies, but I'm not the kind of guy who would dress up as a ghoul for Halloween. I might go as a member of the Blue Man Group.”

— Christopher Mintz-Plasse

“The idea that you can dress up in some kind of a fake Indian outfit and get on stage is somehow acceptable in this country. That has to do with the fact that you have the Redskins, the Braves, you have people who dress up like Indians, people dress up like Indians on Halloween. That is acceptable.”

— Winona LaDuke

“My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after 'Star Wars' opened in '77. In '78, when it was re-released, I was hired by the local cinema to be the Jawa: to dress up all summer long, and I could frighten people with my Jawa sounds and my Jawa outfit and watch 'Star Wars Episode IV' all summer long and get paid with movie passes.”

— Dee Bradley Baker

“Halloween is the only day I can dress up like a hot Latina woman with a beer belly.”

— Felipe Esparza

“I used to dress up as a model for Halloween, like every year.”

— Chanel Iman

“When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.”

— R.L. Stine

“I like Halloween. It gives you a chance to dress up like something you're not, you know? Like when the Miami Dolphins put on football uniforms.”

— David Letterman

“With Halloween coming this weekend, they say not one person in the country is planning to dress up as Governor Sarah Palin. You know why? ... The costume costs $150,000.”

— Jay Leno

“I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress." But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern.”

— Jenny McCarthy

“I think we ought to close Halloween down. Do you want your children to dress up as witches? The Druids used to dress up like this when they were doing human sacrifice ... [Your children] are acting out Satanic rituals and participating in it, and don't even realize it.”

— Pat Robertson

“Halloween means that young girls dress up in highly sexualized outfits that would never be acceptable if it weren't Halloween.”

— Rachel Zucker

“If you are an adult, and you are planning to dress up on Halloween ... don't. I will find you. I will hurt you.”

— Lewis Black

“In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women. They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.”

— Chuck Klosterman

“Technically my dog's naked most of the time. Except halloween, when I dress him up as Liza Minelli.”

— Craig Ferguson

“Do transvestites have to dress up for Halloween or do they pretty much qualify from the get-go?”

— Dana Gould