Words matter. These are the best Corset Quotes from famous people such as Kate O’Mara, Helena Bonham Carter, Ali Smith, Lily James, Paul W. S. Anderson, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Probably the only type of cosmetic surgery I’d consider is having my bust reduced. It’s alright for my current role in ‘The Marquise’ because it’s a costume drama, which means boned corsets and a bit of cleavage, but it’s a drag otherwise.
It would be nice to really shed the corsets.
Words are like untying a corset – you can move into this great space with them.
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I’ll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
With corsets, it’s interesting when you put them on, realizing that’s what women actually wore. They’re just so constricting.
We are definitely modernizing ‘The Three Musketeers’ without compromising the fun of shooting a period piece. But in our film, corsets and feathered hats don’t take center stage. Our version is rich in eye-popping action, romance, and adventure.
The novelty of corsets and dresses and hats very soon wears off.
If you look at it, the corset is a very beautiful item, but when I put one on, I realized how little you could actually move. And I’m a very physical person: I talk with my hands. And I felt how the clothes took that away from me. And that was the idea, I think. It was a way of limiting women.
Changing genders is not a quick process… it takes about two hours to put on all the make-up and the lashes, and the hair, and the corsets, and the seven kinds of adhesives that work in tandem on my body to keep things up and keep things down.
I’ve never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.
You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
Movement is very important to a character, no matter what period you’re working in. So when it came to playing Emma Jung and lacing up in the corset, it was really not a foreign thing for me.
As someone who’s been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.
Happiness is the sublime moment when you get out of your corsets at night.
Let’s unbutton the corsets and see what’s really going on, I say.
When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It’s interesting that once I moved to TV, I’m playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.
The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in ‘Cinderella,’ I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts.
If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn’t be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can’t.
Chanel took women out of corsets and put them into the ‘simple little black dress,’ the perfectly tailored suit, the bell-bottom sailor pants, and jersey tops.
Corsets are always hard to wear.
You have to stand up super-straight in those corsets and pull your shoulders back.
I spend long days wearing a corset – but no pain, no gain.
I can’t always be making ‘British films.’ Why should we be making films about corsets and horses and girls learning to drive when Americans send over an event movie and make five or 10 million?
Actors love mental disorders, dialects, and corsets. Give them one of the three and they’re happy.
Sales of corsets doubled between 1948 and 1958, possibly as part of the process of putting women back into the box, as they gave up the jobs and freedoms that came during wartime.
With a corset on, you can’t breathe properly.
I don’t think I’m a neck actor in otherthings. But in Bridgerton,’ particularly with the way the corset sits andthe attentionon the neck, it makes you hold yourshouldersacertain way.
It’s hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You’re squashed.
You go to the gym to make sure you have the stamina to breathe in the corsets.
If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I’d like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind of thing.
You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair… If you’re a woman it’s even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.
To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
