A Quote by Melissa Leo

You have to let the costume inform you. — © Melissa Leo
You have to let the costume inform you.

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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.
The rules are now clear: no one is going to inform you, but it's easier than ever to inform yourself.
I design for the movie and the character as well as the person wearing the costume. I show the ideas to the actor, then do fittings for shape and technical things such as movement in the costume. Once the costume in this form is on the actor, you have a sense of their connection with it. I then take it to the next level with the final fit.
My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.
We have a costume closet at home. My family will put on a costume for any excuse.
My mum was a costume designer and costume supervisor in the theater and, especially, the ballet. But that was before I was born.
Costume is a massive thing. I think costume makes you stand differently.
Normally, you have to wait for the costume department to help you out of costume.
The secret to a great Halloween costume, and I can't stress this enough, is in my opinion is to extract sexuality out of your costume.
The skeptics said you can't put on a costume in the middle of New York - which isn't true, because everyone's in a costume here.
I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick."
Inform yourself, inform your children, talk to your friends! And let's try to make a better, stonier world than the one we inherited!
The first time I ever dressed in drag was at a costume party during my childhood. I went as Wonder Woman and my mom even took me to get the costume.
I've turned up to costume parties in the wrong costume. I've made social faux pas a plenty. I've put one foot in front of the other and fallen over.
I enjoyed studying costume, learning about the corsetry and the historical context of fashion. I never had any real intention of being a costume designer.
On that road of the informer, it is always night. I cannot ever inform against anyone without feeling something die within me. I inform without pleasure, because it is necessary.
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