Top 60 Wig Quotes

Like most men, I can’t say I am thrilled my hair’s falling out, but then, if I really cared, I suppose I would wear a wig, get transplants, or start taking special pills, so I am obviously just putting up with it.

A wig is a wig is a wig.

When I was with Andy Warhol, I thought, ‘God, his wig looks cheaper than mine!’

In a world of iPads and emails, nothing has really changed in the theatre. You still get in an hour early, do your wardrobe, put an old pair of tights under your wig, and you have, ‘This is your call, Miss Jensen’. I got exhilarated by that.

If I’m feeling like a Barbie girl, I’m gonna throw that blonde wig on. It’s just the mood.

For some reason, I got really obsessed with Samuel Pepys and his diaries when I read them, and with that period. I was probably a man with a wig and a frock coat in a past life!

I’ve been fortunate. I get to write films. I get to write music in films. I get to play arenas wearing a wig.

I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear.

I’ve been acting since I was six. I actually played a boy when I was six in ‘Tommy.’ I played Tommy and they put a wig on me. They put up my hair and put this little boy wig on me and that was my first acting experience. Then I did some other professional theater. I did Shakespeare when I was older.

Once I have a wig on, I become a different person. You can’t get Tierra back until the wig comes off.

It’s an interesting but useless bit of information that every single character in ‘The Lord of the Rings’ and ‘The Hobbit’ wears a wig, and many of them wears a prosthetic – false ears, feet, hands. In my case, nose.

I will never wear a wig if I don’t have to, but I will say that, honestly, it’s not the greatest! They’re hot and stick to your head.

When I was creating my Luxhair Now wig line, I was listening to what my fans were saying online because I wanted to make something that the average woman could wear to work.

You really just want to know that somebody loves you for you. Sometimes you feel like an ATM machine with a wig on it.

When you hear composer, you think, like, Beethoven: guy in a powdered wig, at a piano, furiously scribbling on manuscript paper. That’s not the only image that a composer should bring up, you know. But that’s kind of what we’ve said it is.

I’ve taken my cue from people here and from viewers, especially survivors-who said, ‘When it’s time to literally flip your wig, you’ll know.’

When I had my cancer, the chemotherapy took my hair away. So then I decided I would just keep it short, and this is my signature now. The great thing about it is that I am a bit of a chameleon, so you can put a wig on me and I look totally different.

At home, my daughter Azura has got this long blonde wig that she loves, and she’s obsessed with Rapunzel, but you need to have balance. It’s important that she understands her curly hair is beautiful, too.

You can’t play a high school student forever, so at some point, I’m going to have to tear down that wall and tear off that wig and be me.

British actors wear wigs a lot. I find it to be a nice ritual at the end of the day, take the wig off, clean the makeup off, go home, leave work behind me.

I’m an old fashioned theater major at heart. I love to do a show, do something with friends; I’m kind of a nerd in that way. I like to put on a wig or a fake mustache and do something silly with friends, do a little dance.

I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because there’s somebody out there who can see that all sickness isn’t unto death. That it’s something you can’t change at that point in time, so you just got to go with it. Don’t be ashamed. Don’t be ashamed of looking at yourself.

I have a wig for when I go outside among the regular folks, so they don’t feel uncomfortable because I have a Day-Glo color somewhere in my hair.

You walk in and he’s an A-list actor, so you’re like, ‘Oh my gosh it’s Bradley Cooper! Let me make sure my wig’s on right!’

Back in the day, when a man in a wig had to ‘lip sync for their life,’ they relied on a wig reveal, rose petals or picking up their opponent and twirling them around.

I make an all right Bowie. Actually, I look more like Cilla Black with that wig.

I don’t wear a wig. I’d feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so ‘Actors Studio’-ish, but I like to feel it’s me out there.

For my 10th birthday, what I wanted was Beatle boots and a Beatle wig. My parents couldn’t find Beatle boots, but down at the dime store, Woolworths or someplace, they found a Beatle wig!

I’ve made many, many, many large wigs in my career, and I’ve experimented with lots of materials to make them more fun and interesting and as big as possible. I like to use the lightest wig materials that I can.

Every actor starts out saying, ‘I can play anything in the world: I’m only 25, but I can be a man 70 years old. I’ll put on a gray wig and do it.’ But nobody hires you for that. You have to play yourself on the screen.

I once made a giant six-foot can of Crisco that a person had to dance in and that had an Elvis wig on top.

Anytime you give a man in a wig a microphone, anything can happen.

You get the wig on, you put the lipstick on, you get the big eyelashes on and that’s the GC. It’s like Paul O’Grady when he does Lily Savage… But when I’m not working, I don’t wear a scrap of makeup.

I had a Jackson 5 wig that I would wear around, and I would do, like, the dances from the Jackson 5, and, you know, my mother thought that was hysterical. So of course, that seed got planted very early, the physicality of comedy.

Somebody emailed that to me a bit ago saying there was going to be a Kate Gosselin wig. I thought, ‘Wow, is that really what my hair looks like?’

I get a lot of people asking if my hair is a wig because it is in an elaborate style. I assure them it is all my own.

The make up took about an hour to put on, but the wig was a thing that bothered me more than anything else.

As long as I can wear a wig I can be any character, and in real life I can be myself.

As for facial hair, I think I decided it was a good look after graduate school. I always shave it myself and trim my own beard. I change the look depending on the role. For ‘Million Dollar Baby,’ I had no facial hair. For ‘Men in Black 3,’ I had no facial hair but did wear a wig.

I laugh about it all the time, but, for whatever reason, a lot of people think that I wear a wig. I get emails and tweets about people commenting on my hair being a wig. It’s one of the strangest but most entertaining things I’ve read about myself online.

I am all for trying out various kinds of hair styles. I have even worn a wig earlier in a film where I essayed the part of a woman.

I’ve always said drag queens are like Swiss Army knives. Most come from having to take $50-a-show pay and doing their own costume, wig, music and jokes.

I’m acting when I serve as a hostess, when I run my wig business. I was born to act, and life itself is the greatest part.

The texture my hair, my skin tone; it does work, you don’t have to change. But historically we’ve seen fashion try to change that: straighten your hair, thrown on a super straight silky wig, lighten your skin tone.

After I got my head tonsured, I stopped taking up projects, and have been very choosy because my hairstyle doesn’t suit every role. A few filmmakers even asked me to act with a wig, but I don’t want to do that.

I didn’t fall into the category of the ‘classic Bond girl.’ I had short hair – and no Bond girl before me ever had. They put me in a wig at the beginning of the film, and then had my character cut her hair to pretend to be someone else. That was to explain why my hair was short.

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don’t have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit. I can let other things speak for me now.

I already hated that gray suit and then having to go through putting on that wig with a false front – again made me feel so trapped inside this person who was desperately wanting to break out of it but she was so caught up in the web of deception that she couldn’t.

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.

I never had to carry a wig from one set to another.

I don’t want a wig that looks like a wig; I want one that could pass for a weave.

‘Venus,’ which is a Roger Michell film – my first scene was with Peter O’Toole, and I cried. That was basically my part. I came in, cried in a white wig, and then left.

I am whatever you want me to be and I can’t control that. My experience is my experience, but I can’t really claim anything. I know when I take my wig off at night and I have to twist my hair up, I’m black. But I don’t get too personal most of the time.

When I came back from filming the ‘Chandelier’ video, everyone was like, ‘So what’d you wear? What did the room look like? How many chandeliers were there?’ And I was like, ‘Well, I wore a blond wig, a nude leotard, the room was dirty, and there was no chandelier.’