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Dress Quotes


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


"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."


"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."


"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."


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


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


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


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


"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 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?"



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


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


"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!"


"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."


"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."


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


"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."


"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?"


"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."


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


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


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


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


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


"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."


"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."
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