I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.
— Tracy Chapman
Tempting Halloween Costume quotations
Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

I don't think I ever said, "I want to be an actress.
" But for Halloween, I dressed up as a movie star from when I was seven to when I was twelve. The costume was always a long dress, with makeup, and my hair curled, and jewelry on. And the movie star was always Jenny McCarthy. So right there you could see a little pattern.
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes.
Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brothers winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.
I went to a party at the Playboy Mansion once.
For a Halloween Party. And everyone wasn't in costume, or if they were they were little bunnies or something, and I went as Michael Jackson.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
When I was a kid my family was really poor and I remember one Halloween I wanted to dress up really scary and my parents came home with a duck costume. I wore that costume for years! I hated it.
People are born with intrinsic motivation, self-esteem, dignity, curiosity to learn, joy in learning.
I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween.
If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
I hate Halloween. I hate dressing up. I hate - I wear wigs, makeup, costumes every day. Halloween is like, my least favorite holiday.
I see my face in the mirror and go, 'I'm a Halloween costume? That's what they think of me?'
Then, finally, the third year, begging the parents, I got the Superman Halloween costume. Cardboard box, self-made top, mask included. Remember the rubber band on the back of that mask? That was a quality item there, wasn't it? That was good for about 10 seconds before it snapped out of that cheap little staple they put it in there with.
I'm Joan of Arc. I figured we had a lot in common, seeing as how I was almost burned at the stake. And plus she had that close relationship with God.
We post photos of the Halloween costumes and the mustaches made of cupcake frosting. We don't record the tantrums?and that's as it should be. But we shouldn't mistake that for reality. It's stagecraft.
I picked out my Halloween costume. I’m going as 'Slutty Madeleine Albright.'
I haven't put on a baseball uniform since about age 12.
It's like I'm wearing a Halloween costume. I'm pretending to be a ballplayer.
I don't do costumes, I don't do sh_t like that.
I love Halloween as a concept, but do I actually go out and do things? No. Trick or treating? Pain in the ass. Hate answering the door all night long. I do love fall, which is bad because I live in Los Angeles.
There's going to be a Halloween costume [of lavash from Sausage Party].
The whole thing is just so ridiculous. It's nice. It's silly, and it's surreal.
With Halloween coming this weekend, they say not one person in the country is planning to dress up as Governor Sarah Palin. You know why? ... The costume costs $150,000.
Halloween Costume I Hate: kids dressed as their parent's poltical beliefs.
Oooh! Aren't you a scary health care reform bill!
I have two rules when you come to my house on Halloween.
Wear a costume - 'cause if you've manned your door at your own house, you know how many kids will roll up, 14 years old with no costume and an attitude. My other rule: don't grab. Let me assess you and then design a candy situation for you.
I'm a festive guy to begin with and Halloween is my favorite holiday.
I went all out on this one costume. It's a ghoul that makes me approximately 10 feet tall when I wear it. I actually got an offer to work at a haunted house because the costume is so great, and I did it for about an hour and a half before I got too cold and had to quit to go inside. Michigan winters are no joke.
In some ways, Halloween is much easier for women.
They can just dress as sluts, and it's kind of a costume, if they never do any other time.
Halloween has always been fascinating to me from a very young age.
I think any actor would be fascinated by Halloween because it's one of the only holidays that advocates dressing up in makeup and costumes and transforming oneself.
Here is a very inexpensive costume idea. Wear a re-elect Obama button and go out as a journalist.
Little brats yellin 'Trick or Treat' all through my screen door, When y'all should be at home sleep, Instead of at my front porch 15 deep. The jack o' lantern came in handy... I can turn my porch light out like I ain't got no candy. But ain't that somethin? You buy a Halloween costume and a pumpkin, Almost gave your children a heart attack. It's a tradition, but who the hell started that?
My son wants to be Batman and he wants the Batman costume that comes in the mail. It has fake muscles in it, which is very disconcerting on a four-year-old.
I love Halloween and dressing up. I usually have at least three costumes.
...just because I don't have on a silly black costume and carry a silly broom and wear a silly black hat, doesn't mean that I'm not a witch. I'm a witch all the time and not just on Halloween.
I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more interesting that way? And now that I think about it, why the heck don't they? Who made the rule that everybody has to dress like sheep 364 days of the year? Think of all the people you'd meet if they were in costume every day. People would be so much easier to talk to - like talking to dogs.