William Ivey Long Professions : Costume designer Born : August 30, 1947 Browse All Authors Top 5 quotes by William Ivey Long The trick about the theater is at the end of the day you cannot take any of it personally. William Ivey Long the-end-of-the-day theater ends At the level at which I work with people, their great talent is paired with great insecurity. Self-doubt is literally the twin of self-confidence. And I have to be there for both. William Ivey Long self-confidence insecurity people I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I come home and like to read my book. William Ivey Long flirting home book My mind still runs too fast. If we get the wrong fabric or something is stitched the wrong way, I get so angry and so flummoxed that I start spelling my words, just to slow myself down. William Ivey Long fabric mind running Pushing what is able to be told and how it is able to be told is always important in the theater, one must always encourage these expressions, be they acceptable, outrageous, over-the-top, horrifying, chilling, all these things. We have some of each of that in the new shows this season. William Ivey Long arts Similar Authors Alexandra Byrne costume-designer Irene Sharaff costume-designer Ingrid Weir costume-designer Helen Rose costume-designer Colleen Atwood costume-designer Catherine Martin costume-designer All Authors
