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I love a good corset.
Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.
With a corset on, you can't breathe properly.
My most recent purchase was a black lace corset.
So wearing a corset certainly changes your state of mind.
I spend long days wearing a corset - but no pain, no gain.
I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.
I hate wearing anything tight. A corset is my idea of torture.
It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.
The most uncomfortable costumes have been when you've had to wear a corset.
To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.
Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
I've never been happier to be born in this time than when I was wearing a corset.
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
I don't mind wearing a corset, it informs your posture, changes the way you move, you can't slouch.
I hate drag. It's extremely uncomfortable. It's awful. I'm in a full corset and pads and giant wigs.
I would love to do a period movie. I've always wanted to wear the corset, you know. It's a girl thing!
I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.
Ideally, I would like to play roles in as many classics as possible: 'Rebecca,' 'Hedda Gabler.' I'm fond of a corset.
Maybe people don't see me as believable playing a person of today. I guess I'm just more realistic in a corset and funny hairstyles.
Our minds aren't bound by a chronological corset. When thinking and dreaming, past, present and future are mixed up. That's also possible for a writer.
When you're wearing a corset for a long period of time, things that were important to you hours before are no longer important, because doing them exhausts you.
For 'Rosa Luxemburg,' I read everything by and about her, but the first time I was stuck in that corset, I got an understanding of her that I'd never had before.
I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.
I've treated the waistcoat as if it were a corset, so that it becomes the first layer in the process of putting clothes on the body. There is constant motion between layering and revealing.
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.
I honestly don't think I have one specific style. One day, I could be wearing a workout track suit, and another day, I could be wearing overalls and a tank top. Or I love a slip with corset. It just honestly depends on where I am in the world and what I'm doing and how I'm feeling that day.
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.
For myself, I haven't been content to carry on producing books that merely strain against the conventions - as I've grown older, and realised that there aren't that many books left for me to write, so I've become determined that they should be the fictive equivalent of ripping the damn corset off altogether and chucking it on the fire.
