We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet – but this carpet is on other side of the planet.
It’s just never been in my nature to go out there and go on a red carpet to say, ‘Oh, publicize me!’
I stress out so much about the red carpet and interviews and pictures, and, you know, not getting my skirt tucked in my knickers.
I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.
The double chin’s not good for the red carpet.
If you look at my carpet photos, I’m doing the exact same pose all the way down the carpet – like, I literally shuffle in that pose.
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something – and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too – you’re going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don’t suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.
My ideal audience is on the young side, eager to mutate and move to a higher level of consciousness. I want my images to turn the viewer’s brain into what it is: a flying carpet.
Ahead of going on the red carpet, in the morning, I’ll put on a clay mask to prepare.
People kept reminding me. They were like, What was I doing on my 21st birthday? I was in Vegas getting drunk. You’re actually walking the red carpet. You’re hanging out with Patrick Stewart. Not everybody does that.’
I guess I get to make films and I love what I do, but there’s also the downside of having to be constantly present and do a lot of press, and go to festivals and do the red carpet. And that’s something that’s more and more part of an actor’s job.
We built Bonobos, with more than a few dozen customers and counting, and the industry we were disrupting didn’t seem to care. Then we ‘sold out’ to Walmart. Abracadabra. The red carpet rolled open.
Whatever I feel comfortable in is usually what I’ll wear. I go to different events and premieres and walk the red carpet… those things are awkward enough on their own. You don’t want to be pulling up a top all night. I will sacrifice foot comfort though. I love high heels.
I like to stay away from that red carpet world unless I absolutely have to do it. I’d rather put on my Tom Ford suit and take a few pictures at home.
Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any colour.
The world was like a huge red carpet out ahead of me to be walked on. And it stretched on and on, no end.
Walking down the red carpet, suddenly I felt very special and different. All the flashlights from cameras and requesting voices from the media, the scene, it was just like what I remembered seeing on TV or a movie when I was a little girl – the scene only when movie stars appeared.
I try not to wear foundation unless I have a giant pimple, which sometimes I do. For the red carpet, I may add a brighter colored lip and darker eyes. But my standard is blush and mascara.
I don’t think previously strong relationships can remain strong after dispute by just sweeping the offensive stuff under the carpet, or by saying a puny sorry, or ‘oh, that’s all over now.’ It doesn’t work like that for me.
Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that’s fine, but for girls it’s all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
The bottom line is that red carpet helps us broaden the appeal of the brand. Calvin Klein used to be about a very specific woman, but we’ve dressed so many different women at awards.
The red carpet is not something I really know how to work. It intimidates me. I feel very tiny.
I love the smell of a theater. The old rooms and the carpet and all that stuff. I love to tell stories. Even before I was doing music, I saw myself as a director. So most of my songs come in a play form, you know, where there are characters and stories, so I like to go beyond just the song sometimes.
The main part of the house is a deep red and I have butterscotch carpet. And I have a bathroom with leopard skin floor, wallpaper and toilet.
The red carpet doesn’t interest me. I think people become all the same; it’s like everyone posing from the three-quarter angle in some low-cut, fitted dress; it’s all the same.
I didn’t even know I was considered plus-size until I was on the red carpet here in L.A. one day and a lady said, ‘How do you feel about being a plus-sized girl in Hollywood?’ I was like, ‘What’s she talking about?’
As a child, I dreamed that my bed could fly and glide and swoop and hover high over the countryside near my home while, snug and secure, I looked down in wonder at the great carpet of life that seemed so perfect beneath me.
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
I grew up in a working class family. People thought I might go work at a mill. My mom wanted me to learn how to lay carpet because she was concerned about my future. Nobody had high hopes for me. But I was a hustler.
I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.
Being with Al Gore on the red carpet in Cannes was exciting – he’s like a rock star unto himself!
Every spring, this country will be reminded of the Lady from Texas. As trees bloom and flowers carpet our nation’s capital, Lady Bird Johnson will be remembered. Only Lady Bird Johnson could, with her vision of a beautiful America, lay claim to spring as her memorial.
At the premiere for ‘Leave It to Beaver,’ I was walking down the red carpet, and they were screaming my name, and I’m wondering, ‘What do I do?’ So I had to think, ‘OK, calm down, one person at a time.’ Everything is kind of rattling, but afterwards, my publicist said I did really good.
I’m always in a hotel room, and I spend a good portion of my day setting it up so it’s comfortable for me. Whether that means making paths out of towels so I don’t touch the carpet or removing the comforters or just not touching things. Even sitting on a plane with a bunch of other people – it’s really hard for me.
There is definitely a ‘red carpet moment’ to a bride’s wedding day, but when designing for bridal, it is important to focus on the details that will captivate and capture the imagination of the bride – she has to fall in love with the gown.
I find this wave of super-skinny women scary. I’m not going to lie to you, I’ve got to drag myself down to the gym like everybody else. But I look at the red carpet sometimes and it’s like a pageant.
There’s nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!
I love the Cannes Film Festival. From the lavish parties and events to the red carpet attire, this star-studded week-long event is where I get a lot of inspiration for hair and fashion.
If you believe what you are on the red carpet, then you would have to go see a doctor, and there are so many actors like that. You have to know very well this is a moment of glamour, and when I go back home, I don’t have the airbrush, and I have dark circles because I don’t have the make-up on.
I exercise to stay strong, healthy, and stage-ready. I never prepare for a red carpet – I just go with the flow.
When I was younger, the red carpet used to terrify me because it’s not about playing a part: you’re not in a film pretending to be someone – you are yourself. It’s intimidating.
I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they’re not just looking for the latest, most normal thing.
I started working for my dad – he had his own company in carpet upholstery cleaning. I was doing whatever he said. It was hard work, it made me grow up and realize that it’s not what I wanted to do.
I love dressing up, but I do find the red carpet thing quite stressful. When I went to Venice Film Festival last month to promote ‘Wuthering Heights,’ I told my boyfriend beforehand ‘I will be a nightmare, I will cry, I will be nervous.’ Actually once I was there, it was fine.
I was very insecure with the dresses I would have to wear to red carpet events.
If someone doubts our right to exist – be it on the hills of Umm al-Fahem or in Munich’s beer halls, in Gaza’s crowded streets or in the thick woods of Babi Yar – it’s their problem. Proud states do not break into wails and crawl under the carpet when they discover someone doesn’t love them.
Part of George R.R. Martin’s brilliant storytelling is taking the carpet out from under your feet.
I had the opportunity to wear Hearts On Fire jewelry on the red carpet and just loved the way their diamonds made me look and feel.
Actors play different characters in every project they do. Though it has nothing to do with my craft, the red carpet gives me the opportunity to show who I really am and be myself.
I’m not going to tell a person how to think, don’t believe in that. What I want to do, when I write these books, is just to say don’t be so sure of yourself. Let me pull the carpet out from underneath you, and let’s see if you can still find the footing.
I’ve braved the red carpet when I didn’t feel comfortable, and when I look at the pictures, it always shows!
I’m not particularly good at ‘celebrity’; I don’t think it was something I was born to do. I think I can get by as an actor, but I’ve never been one for the red carpet and don’t put a lot of stock in celebrities that are famous for being famous.
