You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

I would loathe to work on modern films.

I did a film called Dracula and it was very nice because I had lots of trips to New York on Concorde.

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

I liked Live and Let Die, where money was no object.

I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.

That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.

But with period clothes, people know less so they accept the pretty drawing that I give them.

I didn't know whether I wanted to be an actress or a singer then.

There are wonderful museums with lots of photographs of 1920's musicals.

When you look at Darling and the Oscars, it has to be luck. It was a black and white film and it was the last time that there was a black and white Oscar.

Sometimes the producer has more say and the director takes what he is given. On other occasions, you don't see the producer very much and the director is the one who it is all about.

I don't understand what modern clothes are about at all.

A lot of it, as it is in any job in life, is being in the right place at the right time.

I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals.

John Schlesinger had one of his friends designing it and he had never done a film before. Ten days before it started, they didn't have any costumes. I was rung up and joined up.

I find shoestrings very hard work. I like big budgets.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

You are lucky that I can't sing tonight because I might get carried away.

God comes to us in theater in the way we communicate with each other, whether it be a symphony orchestra, or a wonderful ballet, or a beautiful painting, or a play. It's a way of expressing our humanity.

The actors nowadays, both young men and young ladies, don't always wear their period clothes as well as they might. They tend to stomp around a bit in them.

I got the boot once from Stanley Donen. The film was called The Little Prince.

I liked The Slipper and the Rose, as I have already mentioned, because it was such a lovely film to do.

I fell in love with Dorset and ended up living there for a while.

You had to make sure that the tone of your dress was not the same tone as the curtains, for instance.

It's nice when you work with someone who has an eye for clothes and will show what you've given them.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

On the speech day, the production designer, who has a lot of say in things, and sometimes I didn't agree with him but I had to do what I was told, wanted the speech day to be all in neutral colours for the women, which was a good thing.

I wish we did have responsibility for the hair. I have been screwed up by the hair on many occasions.

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

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.

Someday I'm going to go onstage in a dress if I want to.

I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?

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?

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.

When I decided to get married at 40, I couldn't find a dress with the modernity or sophistication I wanted. That's when I saw the opportunity for a wedding gown business.

I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.

Oh, completely liberating because even if you don't do a woman right, you just have to put on high heels a wig, a bra and a dress, and I feel liberated.

What to do? We yanked the dress up over her lovely attributes and with the addition of a scarf, the problem was solved. Sorry, guys, blame that stuffy censor. He hated surprises.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.

My friend made me a leather dress for the MTV awards. It gives you confidence, wearing something you love.

I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.

Over the years I have learned that what is important in a dress is the woman who is wearing it.

No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.