Quotes on Dress

I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

Author: Victoria Abril

If you want someone to feel warm, you dress them in a warm color and put a warm light on them and you get the picture. Sometimes, all that needs pushing a little bit to help tell the story.

Author: Colleen Atwood

Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.

Author: Jane Austen

What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.

Author: Christian Bale

A woman should be less concerned about Paris and more concerned about whether the dress she's about to buy relates to the way she lives.

Author: Geoffrey Beene

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Author: Ludwig Bemelmans

If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing?

Author: Marian Burros

But I do mean to say, I have heard her declare, When at the same moment she had on a dress Which cost five hundred dollars, and not a cent less, And jewelry worth ten times more, I should guess, That she had not a thing in the wide world to wear!

Author: William Butler

I don't always wear underwear. When I'm in the heat, especially, I can't wear it. Like, if I'm wearing a flower dress, why do I have to wear underwear?

Author: Naomi Campbell

I do not think I reinvent myself. Wearing my hair differently or changing my style of dress is playing dress-up. I don't take it too seriously.

Author: Mariah Carey

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

Author: George Catlin

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

Author: William Cavendish

Without knowing this, no man can dress a horse perfectly.

Author: William Cavendish

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Author: Coco Chanel

Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.

Author: Coco Chanel

If you dress like a movie star, you have me.

Author: Steven Cojocaru

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

Author: Doug Coupland

The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

Author: Quentin Crisp

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

Author: Stanley Crouch

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

Author: Stacey Dash

Me, I'm good at nothing but walking on the set with a pretty dress.

Author: Sandra Dee

I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I'd dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.

Author: Illeana Douglas

I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

Author: Farrah Fawcett

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Author: Benjamin Franklin

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.

Author: Antonia Fraser

And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It's all fabulous.

Author: Morgan Freeman

I'm just a bleeping maniac in straight clothing. There's no reason to dress my monster up.

Author: Glenn Frey

I'm always the girl at the party who, within five minutes, has taken my heels off, hitched up my dress in my knickers, and probably spilt drink down my cleavage.

Author: Sadie Frost

I like the fact that Jack is always wearing a tie except when he's on a mission. I do like it when I get out there and dress up, or dress down, a little bit.

Author: Victor Garber

I'm kind of a quirky dresser usually. Like today, I'm actually pretty put together, but I dress kind of off sometimes, but that's just part of my personality.

Author: Debbie Gibson

When it began to grow dark, the Rat, with an air of excitement and mystery, summoned them back into the parlour, stood each of them up alongside of his little heap, and proceeded to dress them up for the coming expedition.

Author: Kenneth Grahame

You can dress it up, but it comes down to the fact that a movie is only as good as its script.

Author: Curtis Hanson

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

Author: Julie Harris

Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.

Author: William Hazlitt

A blond in a red dress can do without introductions - but not without a bodyguard.

Author: Rona Jaffe

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

Author: Stefan Kanfer

I feel very strongly about dresses on every level - a dress feels like underpinning.

Author: Donna Karan

However I dress it up, I was a spy and I am not proud of it.

Author: Christine Keeler

I don't want to dress up a picture with just my face.

Author: Grace Kelly

There's no drugs, no Tom in a dress, no psychiatrists.

Author: Nicole Kidman

I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

Author: Laura Kightlinger

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

Author: Yves Laurent

I don't make an effort to be sloppy. I just don't consider a perfect hairdo and a perfect face to be beautiful. If I had my way I'd dress myself and do my own makeup for magazine shoots.

Author: Juliette Lewis

I like there to be some testosterone in rock, and it's like I'm the one in the dress who has to provide it.

Author: Courtney Love

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

Author: Paul Lynde

An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.

Author: William Manchester

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

Author: William Manchester

Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

Author: Imelda Marcos

You know when you find a great dress, you've gotta hold on to it.

Author: Rachel McAdams

Oh, completely liberating because even if you don't do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated.

Author: Kevin McDonald

You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.

Author: Roger McGough

I dress to kill, but tastefully.

Author: Freddie Mercury

I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me.

Author: Bette Midler

The more you'll dress up the more fun you'll have.

Author: Brian Molko

I dress up as a middle-aged prostitute and do a game show.

Author: Paul O'Grady

The pressure was if I didn't get into that dress size someone else would - someone else would get the job.

Author: Carre Otis

I feel less pressure to dress youthfully. I'm 50 and everyone knows I'm 50 - who are you kidding? Jeans are my uniform. I have about 15 pairs.

Author: Michelle Pfeiffer

Women: You can't live with them, and you can't get them to dress up in a skimpy little Nazi costume and beat you with a warm squash or something.

Author: Emo Philips

I usually dress very casual. Whenever I go out with my friends, I'm always like, 'Can't I just wear sweatpants?'

Author: Natalie Portman

About six weeks later, she called because she had found a dress. And then she said yes.

Author: Maury Povich

Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.

Author: Joan Rivers

If I want to wear a dress, I'll wear a dress.

Author: Dennis Rodman

Everyone is their own kind of lesbian. To think there's a certain way to dress or present yourself in the world is just one more stereotype we have to fit into.

Author: Portia Rossi

There was a French singer, Francoise Hardy - I used to look at her pictures and try to dress like her.

Author: Carly Simon

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Author: Liz Smith

Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

Author: Liz Smith

When we had highly sensitive information, the DNA on the dress, that was held within our office and the FBI. There was no dissemination of that information.

Author: Kenneth Starr

In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bottom of my dress caught fire, and the grips became hysterical as they tried to pull me off the stake.

Author: Barbara Steele

When I dress up, I have to have a lot of help. I was in a T-shirt until a few minutes ago.

Author: Kristen Stewart

Hey, I'm a girl, and we like to play dress-up.

Author: Charlize Theron

Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.

Author: Rip Torn

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

Author: Anthony Trollope

I hold that gentleman to be the best-dressed whose dress no one observes.

Author: Anthony Trollope

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

Author: Tracey Ullman

Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners.

Author: Loretta Young