My motto is that the audience should notice the actors, not the clothes.

As women, we all have certain weaknesses. I know one who can't resist pretty shoes but has nothing suitable to wear with them. Others adore frilly lingerie but never have any money to buy outer clothing.

You can have anything you want in life if you dress for it.

The cardinal sin is not being badly dressed, but wearing the right thing in the wrong place.

Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.

What a costume designer does is a cross between magic and camouflage. We create the illusion of changing the actors into what they are not. We ask the public to believe that every time they see a performer on the screen he's become a different person.

Marlene Dietrich and Roy Rogers are the only two living humans who should be allowed to wear black leather pants.