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Once you embody the language, the character comes really naturally, especially when you put the costume on.

Costume is a huge part of getting into character. Your body soaks in what you're wearing, and you turn into someone else.

It's always fun messing around with costumes and stuff. You know there is an element of acting that you've got to dress-up; that's part of it.

I'm pretty tried-and-tested in the world of 'suit acting.'

Costumes are the first impression that you have of the character before they open their mouth-it really does establish who they are.

In general, costumes are the first thing in life that let other people know who we are. They indicate who the person is without saying anything.

It helps with your acting when you're not in a perfect costume, perfect wardrobe, a perfectly seamed blouse, perfectly ironed hair, and perfectly done eyeshadow. It's really liberating.

The costume affects your posture, affects your walk, how you hold yourself, and how you breathe. The costumes make you deliver.

In the beginning, when you're acting in amateur theater and off-Broadway, it was unheard of that anyone else would get your costume. And it was important to get a good costume. You put time into that.

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.