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Dress Quotes



"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


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


"The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress."


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


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


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


"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?"


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


"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."


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


"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."



"Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator."


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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?"



"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."



"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."


"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."


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



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



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


"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."
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