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Dress Quotes


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


"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?"


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


"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!"


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


"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."


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


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


"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."


"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."


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



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


"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."


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


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


"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."



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