When I was doing theater for all those years in New York, I did a lot of classical theater, wearing big corsets and big dresses and doing dialects. It's interesting that once I moved to TV, I'm playing these scrappy, contemporary toughies.

Mireille Enos

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.

Ali Smith

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

Alison Elliott

You have to also provide a video for it, look a certain way and big hair... If you're a woman it's even more strange with fake fingernails and corsets and all this stuff that was big in the 80s.

Ann Wilson

To put on a corset properly is as much of an art as to make a corset properly.

Anna Held

I played crying people in corsets for a long time, but I went into acting to be a character actor.

Anna Maxwell Martin

My performance outfits are very Marie Antoinette, sparkly corsets... and full skirts. And then we do another look that's '50s-inspired. Poufy skirts, big bows. Very fun, girlie and young, but otherwise, when I'm not in costume, I dress really normal.

Ariana Grande

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.

Barbara Sukowa

I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

Brenda Blethyn

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

Cate Blanchett

If you look back at British history, women being allowed to play sport in schools meant they had to change their clothing. They couldn't be running around in their long skirts and corsets, because you can't.

Clare Balding

Changing genders is not a quick process... it takes about two hours to put on all the make-up and the lashes, and the hair, and the corsets, and the seven kinds of adhesives that work in tandem on my body to keep things up and keep things down.

Courtney Act

The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.

Dinah Sheridan

I actually enjoy wearing the corsets required in some period films.

Dinah Sheridan

Corsetry is a body modification.

Dita Von Teese

The most uncomfortable costumes have been when you've had to wear a corset.

Eleanor Tomlinson

If there was a time period I could be in, costume-wise, I'd like to be in something with corsets. Like the 1910s, that kind of thing.

Emily Hampshire

I seem to disappoint people a bit. They want the full regalia - but I don't walk around in a corset the whole time.

Erin O'Connor

I'm resigned to the fact that the corseted history of America is not as exciting as that of Britain.

Felicia Day

Wearing a corset is extremely uncomfortable.

Florence Pugh

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.

Florence Pugh