“I had a lot of survival jobs. One was for the Witty Ditty singing-telegram company. I was in the red-and-white stripes with the straw boater hat and kazoo. Balloons. Even when you’re sleeping on a friend’s couch, you have to pay some kind of rent.”
― Aaron Sorkin
“I go to Buzzfeed and ‘Huff Po,’ IMDB, ‘Deadline.’ And then I just Google myself, like ‘Aasif Mandvi in a hat,’ and see what comes up.”
― Aasif Mandvi
“My grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn’t like that.”
― Adam Sandler
“I must say that Dhanush wears the hat of director and actor pretty seamlessly.”
― Aditi Rao Hydari
“For me, there is very little difference between magic and art. To me, the ultimate act of magic is to create something from nothing: It’s like when the stage magician pulls the rabbit from the hat.”
― Alan Moore
“Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she’s already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.”
― Aleksandar Hemon
“In the summer I wear shorts with a bright top and ankle boots or just sandals. I’ll add a nice scarf, maybe a hat, some cool sunglasses. It’s all about the accessories.”
― Alessandra Ambrosio
“Justin Salinger showed up one day with a pink cowboy hat on and everyone else got really annoyed because somehow he’d managed to get the pink cowboy hat.”
― Alex Cox
“I used to think that I wanted to be a hat maker, but I don’t think that would have worked out.”
― Alice Waters
“I’m one of those girls that cries at the drop of a hat. I’m oversensitive, if anything. I’m a mom. I’m very earthy, crunchy granola. I compost.”
― Alysia Reiner
“I make hats. I’m on a hat frenzy. I’m on my eighth and I love it.”
― Amanda Seyfried
“When I want to be incognito, I don’t wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.”
― Amelie Nothomb
“The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.”
― Andrew Carnegie
“I’m really ultra-affected by things, I feel things deeper, and I cry at the drop of a hat, and offended and sensitive and I’m almost paranoid very easily, and that’s who I am.”
― Andy Dick
“That artists are called to be more responsible and ‘true’ is a tip of hat to their power.”
― Anna Deavere Smith
“I would even go to Washington, which is saying something for me, just to glimpse Jane Q. Public, being sworn in as the first female president of the United States, while her husband holds the Bible and wears a silly pill box hat and matching coat.”
― Anna Quindlen
“The survivors of Hurricane Harvey do not need empty tweets and platitudes from people like Donald Trump and Joel Osteen. They have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that, as we say in Texas, they are all hat and no cattle.”
― Anthea Butler
“I take my hat off to mums who have lots of kids. Anyone that says being a mum isn’t a full-time job has obviously never had any.”
― Ashley Jensen
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
― Ben Hecht
“Honor’s a good brooch to wear in a man’s hat at all times.”
― Ben Jonson
“One of my best friends, James Miller, managed to find the only Cubs hat that is all red.”
― Ben Zobrist
“The Mad Hatter has probably the most beautiful hat I’ve ever seen. It’s gorgeous. The costumes that this guy wears are fabulous.”
― Benedict Samuel
“I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.”
― Bernard Berenson
“We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it’s a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.”
― Bernhard Langer
“A woman’s place in public is to sit beside her husband, be silent, and be sure her hat is on straight.”
― Bess Truman
“Some may look on my work as being corny or old hat and wonder if my observations on the typical family are passe, what with the single-parent family and mixed family units.”
― Bil Keane
“The voice over is a hat you put on right now as opposed to worrying about going through wardrobe, and having to look a certain way. You just got to let your voice do the talking for you.”
― Blair Underwood
“I got my name in the hat for 2020 Mayor of Houston, Texas.”
― Booker T
“A hat has to be shaped to a person’s face so it fights just right. It has to be done right. If you put my hat on, with my shape, you’d look like an idiot. If the bill is too high or too saggy, you look like a European tourist going to their first country concert.”
― Brad Paisley
“I always wear SPF 30 sunscreen under my make-up, and I also wear a hat because taking care of my skin is important to me.”
― Brande Roderick
“I tip my hat to the long list of girls that have really taken wrestling up a notch.”
― Bret Hart
“Anybody who thinks that they should lead the country should go ahead and put their hat in the ring. I am not among them. And I want to be unequivocal about that. There are no circumstances. I don’t want to be coy about this.”
― Brian Schatz
“Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.”
― Bruce Sterling
“When I was young, I wanted to be like the rappers. I remember being in junior high and wanting a fisherman hat and a link because EPMD had one. I wanted to wear Adidas because Run-DMC wore Adidas. As I came into my own, I just wanted to do me.”
― Cam’ron
“I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin’ hat – all at the same time.”
― Carlene Carter
“I’m not having to go outside and switch the role model hat on. It’s me, and it’s important for me to leave that legacy to help inspire younger players because I didn’t have a role model growing up.”
― Carli Lloyd
“U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It’s like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.”
― Carlos Fuentes
“I’m not surfing much anymore, but I love hiking and gardening, and I’m always wearing a hat and sunblock.”
― Carolyn Murphy
“I tend to wear boots, jeans, and T-shirts everywhere I go, and a hat.”
― Chad Michael Murray
“Playing well with others is important – not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination.”
― Chad Smith
“For live you need a microphone for the snare and the high hat, the kick drum, a nice stereo overhead and one for the toms – you can get away with using four mikes.”
― Chad Smith
“I don’t want to be the guy who’s 50-something years old sitting in front of a microphone with my beard dyed black and my hat on backwards, yo-yo-yoing.”
― Charlamagne tha God
“You start out giving your hat, then you give your coat, then your shirt, then your skin and finally your soul.”
― Charles de Gaulle
“When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father’s hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.”
― Charles Kuralt
“I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the pants baggy, the coat tight, the hat small and the shoes large.”
― Charlie Chaplin
“That is why, no matter how desperate the predicament is, I am always very much in earnest about clutching my cane, straightening my derby hat and fixing my tie, even though I have just landed on my head.”
― Charlie Chaplin
“It’s going to be a rule, I think, for wearing a crash hat, and I actually fractured my skull through not wearing a hat. I was so lucky to escape from that, and now, it’s something I always do.”
― Charlotte Dujardin
“Here we are, worrying about whether we’re thin enough or whether our bottom looks too big in this pair of trousers or even whether or not I should wear a hat – does it really matter in comparison to the important things that are going on in the world?”
― Cherie Blair
“My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin’ because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn’t wearing shorts.”
― Chris LeDoux
“I can’t live without knowing I have my extensions and ponytail. So I can run out the door at the drop of a hat.”
― Christie Brinkley
“My bedtime was 8 P.M. But on ‘Cosby’ nights, I got to stay up until 8:30. Real big deal. This is when they could afford to do a completely different title sequence in TV every year. I always looked forward to that. It was like a mini musical at the top of the show. My favorite was the Top Hat fancy version.”
― Christine Lakin
“I haven’t spent my entire career playing the guy in the bad hat, although I have to say that the bad guy is frequently much more interesting than the good guy.”
― Christopher Lee
“I just love a girl in a hat. It’s really sexy.”
― Clemence Poesy
“One of my favorite poses was when working with Steven Meisel. It was one of my first photo shoots with him, and we were trying to get the cover of Italian ‘Vogue.’ Then, I literally took my Balenciaga hat, pulled it down, and gave a rolling-eye, ‘ugh’ face, crossed legs on the floor. And lo and behold, that was the cover of Italian ‘Vogue.’”
― Coco Rocha
“I would definitely do TV, at the drop of a hat, if I was offered a good role.”
― Colin Firth
“The idea of going off to an office every day and ‘putting on my art hat’ doesn’t appeal.”
― Cornelia Parker
“Like the periwig and the bowler hat, the plus-four and the bow-tie, the blazer is on the way out, and those who persist in wearing it do so with a smattering of self-consciousness, a touch of obstinacy, even a pinch of camp.”
― Craig Brown
“I’m the girl that’s on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body’s covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.”
― Dakota Fanning
“If you’re a kid in Southern California, somebody – whether it’s you or your parents – somebody throws your hat into the ring and I think everyone had a commercial or two.”
― Danny Bonaduce
“People nowadays think of gamebooks as rather old hat – and, after all, it was twenty years ago. In their heyday, though, they were a phenomenon, selling upwards of a hundred thousand units per title. And it’s not as old hat as you might think: the same design skills I used in those days apply equally when I’m creating modern videogames.”
― Dave Morris
“I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour.”
― Dave Mustaine
“All though I didn’t meet him. His legend and his saga and his story is just that. Jackie Robinson, we all have to tip our hat to him. Because he made the game available to guys like me.”
― Dave Winfield
“It doesn’t matter the kind of music, it doesn’t matter whether it’s a cowboy hat or a yarmulke. I don’t care if it’s outer space or pop, the spirit is the same.”
― David Lee Roth
“The ‘conspiracy theorist’ is no longer a crazy person with a tinfoil hat, but they are the Edward Snowdens and the WikiLeaks that bring down major institutions and are the catalysts for social change.”
― Dean Haglund
“Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we’re thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!”
― Debby Ryan
“It is my Middle Eastern hat and my attachment to Israel that ultimately inspires my support for Obama. I know he understands that neither Israel nor America can afford four more years of Iran and the radical Islamists gaining strategic leverage in the Middle East.”
― Dennis Ross
“It’s sometimes a little embarrassing to take selfies, but sometimes I want to take a selfie because I’m like, ‘Oh I look cute. I like my hat. I like what I’m wearing, and I want to show it off.’”
― Diane Guerrero
“I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.”
― Donna Mills
“I guess I’m just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It’s fun to put on the writer’s hat and go hide by myself with my computer for six months. Then it’s fun to come out and put the director hat on and deal with all the things that a director deals with. Then it’s fun to just be the producer and, um, not do anything.”
― Drew Goddard
“I’d love to cover an ‘Incubus’ song. I don’t think anybody in a cowboy hat on a country stage has ever done that, and I’d love to be the first.”
― Dustin Lynch
“Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
“There were a couple of things I needed to do while I was in New York. One was to have a pizza pie, one was to get a tattoo… and the other was to get a Yankees hat.”
― Ed Sheeran
“I like wearing things that are a bit off but not in a ridiculous ‘I’m wearing a huge hat’ kind of way. More a socks with sandals way.”
― Edie Campbell
“The closer a part is to you, the harder it is to play. Anything else is just imitation. If I’m playing a Russian countess, I get the hat, the accent, the outrageousness. Easy. Playing a murderess? Perfect.”
― Elaine Stritch
“I like glasses so I can go out without my makeup. Just grab your coat and get your hat and go.”
― Elaine Stritch
“The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat.”
― Elizabeth Bishop
“I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it’s an exhausting thing to live with.”
― Elizabeth McGovern
“I can cry at the drop of a hat. I’ve always found that easier than laughing in films.”
― Emily Browning
“If I wear a hat and sunglasses, not as many people recognize me.”
― Emma Gonzalez
“I used to have a hat obsession, but unfortunately for me, I have a tiny head, which means most hats don’t fit very well. I do love them, though.”
― Emma Ishta
“I’m pretty skinny, and I can sleep at the drop of a hat. So, take that middle seat in economy and save the money for other things you can do.”
― Eric Garcetti
“I will jump on anybody’s private plane at the drop of a hat. I’m an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.”
― Eric Idle
“The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.”
― Eric Idle
“There are photos of me with my Pony trucker hat, sideways. Truly, awesomely, horrible.”
― Erika Christensen
“I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.”
― Erma Bombeck
“That cowboy look – the hat and the bandana – that’s not a fashion statement. That clothing is purely practical.”
― Ethan Coen
“It’s the first hat trick of my career, so I will treasure the match ball.”
― Fabio Quagliarella
“I really take my hat off to anybody that steps in the ring because it’s so hard – you’re competing against your friends, and you’re working in front of an audience who tells you exactly what they’re thinking.”
― Florence Pugh
“The phrase ‘mad as a hatter’ was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities – traits that resembled mental instability.”
― Frances Beinecke
“Cock your hat – angles are attitudes.”
― Frank Sinatra
“A gentleman is any man who wouldn’t hit a woman with his hat on.”
― Fred Allen
“Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.”
― Fred Allen
“I’m going to be wearing the Stryker hat because I’m a walking testimonial to the fact that you can get your knee replaced and still play at a really high level and get your life back.”
― Fred Funk
“When I was little I was always getting hit. Kids would take my hat and throw it around, and it upset me. So I got to be very revengeful.”
― Freddie Prinze
“A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.”
― Frederick the Great
“I like colorful stuff. I like wearing stuff that nobody is wearing. That’s why I wear the bear hat. I’ll wear the whole mink.”
― French Montana
“I don’t have a life, I really don’t. I’m as close to a nun as you can be without the little hat. I’m a golf nun.”
― Gabrielle Reece
“What’s so brave about being bald? I’ve not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer – I’ve just gone out without my hat on!”
― Gail Porter
“Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director’s hat is only trying to justify his position.”
― Gary Oldman
“They were saying, ‘Keep this under your hat, but Jack Sparrow’s going to die in the second movie.’ I went, ‘You’re kidding me. The fans are going to go berserk.’”
― Geoffrey Rush
“When the Lord sent me forth into the world, He forbade me to put off my hat to any, high or low.”
― George Fox
“I grew up on comics in the 1960s era, when ‘Wonder Woman’ was rather silly. She was an interchangeable female character plagued by bad stereotypes. She cried at the drop of a hat, she was worried about how she looked, all of that.”
― George Perez
“Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned – not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.”
― George W. S. Trow
“When I embraced the rock hat, when I put it on two or three years ago, when I realized I’m gonna go and make really focused rock albums, it felt like wearing an old shoe. It was a perfect fit.”
― Glenn Hughes
“There are right and wrong reasons for doing solo projects, and this album was done for the right reasons. At the time there was no Judas Priest and I certainly wasn’t going to hang my hat up on my musical career.”
― Glenn Tipton
“I’m not big on faith rules, but if I had to choose one, it would be that every person must choose a faith issue upon which to hang her hat that requires her to change – not somebody else.”
― Glennon Doyle Melton
“Rob Quist is Nancy Pelosi in a cowboy hat.”
― Greg Gianforte
“If you ain’t got your black hat, there ain’t no use in filling out an application.”
― Greg Moore
“There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.”
― Gregory Peck
“Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don’t have any human or mammalian instincts. They’ll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There’s no empathy – none.”
― Guillermo del Toro
“Even if people censure me, they should do so hat in hand.”
― Gustav Mahler
“Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don’t have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.”
― Hanya Yanagihara
“If you put on your business hat, you can’t maintain competitiveness by staying at a competitive disadvantage. I mean, you just can’t. The odds are just not in your favor.”
― Heather Bresch
“I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it’s a conversation piece.”
― Hedda Hopper
“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Well-building hat three conditions. Commodity, firmness, and delight.”
― Henry Wotton
“What are the two biggest things online? Selfies and emojis. We’re combining them. Instead of sending some character that means nothing with a hat – what if it was your face doing something? Me-moji.”
― Howie Mandel
“Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.”
― Hubert H. Humphrey
“I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, ‘Do you need help, brother?’ And $1 fell into my hat!”
― Ian Mckellen
“I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had these fantasies of who I wanted to be, so I’d dress like an explorer, a cowboy. I dressed up like Elton John a lot too. That was another period.”
― Illeana Douglas
“I was a pop freak. I love music. Of course, I knew soul because I grew up in it. Writing it and everything. I love soul. But I love a tune that has some meat in it. Something I could hang my hat on. Because music is universal. Therefore, I felt no boundaries.”
― Isaac Hayes
“I don’t use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me.”
― Isabella Blow
“Desire is the strongest human emotion – desire for a hat, desire for a dress; that’s what drives people to buy and want things.”
― Isabella Blow
“In Wisconsin, style-wise, it was all about bundling up, maybe wearing a hat and forgetting about your hair.”
― J. J. Watt
“I loved cowboy movies when I was a kid. When I was five years old, I was already wearing a cowboy hat and suit. When I grew up, I knew John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Kirk Douglas and so on.”
― Jackie Chan
“I have an American top hat that’s collapsible and works as a frisbee.”
― Jackson Rathbone
“Be like Curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what’s there.”
― James Collins
“The last time I went to a festival without a hat, two things happened. One: I got sunstroke. Secondly, I had to buy what can only be described as a Jamiroquai hat, which was sartorially incorrect – I’m saying that as a Jamiroquai fan. That was a disaster. I looked like a small clown.”
― Jamie Cullum
“Never wear a hat and sunglasses at the same time, because it looks like you’re wearing a disguise.”
― Jamie Hince
“My hair was falling out so I got in the habit of wearing a hat. And I didn’t like baseball caps so I got a beret.”
― Jamie Hyneman
“A Birkin bag is a very good rain hat; just put everything else in a plastic bag.”
― Jane Birkin
“I wanted to do something where I could hang my hat.”
― Jane Lynch
“I did The Sorting Hat, and it was the Gryffindor, and I was like, ‘I’m not doing it again. It could be something bad.’”
― Jared Goff
“I got a hat deal with Resistol, where I have my own line of cowboy hats.”
― Jason Aldean
“The only person that anybody’s ever said I resemble is a young Elvis. It used to happen a lot more when I was younger, and more when I don’t wear a hat.”
― Jason Aldean
“I’m a cowboy. I wear a hat. I drive a 4×4 Silverado diesel truck. I’ve got a farm.”
― Jason McCoy
“I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.”
― Jay DeMarcus
“I may be the prat in the hat, that’s cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.”
― Jay Kay
“I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.”
― Jay-Z
“I was a hostess, a waitress, a cafe manager, and a prep chef. For one job, I had to wear a hat shaped like a head of garlic.”
― Jenna Blum
“There’s rarely a big hat. I think all those things are great, but I’m boring in that I just use sunscreen every day. I don’t mess around. I put it on first thing. I have it on now, and I’m sitting inside.”
― Jennifer Garner
“I’ve got a hat face. My mother always said I’ve got a hat face.”
― Jenny Eclair
“I wore a Santa hat for a whole year in high school.”
― Jeremy Sisto
“Sure, nobody ever recognises me. I’m always scurrying around London under a hat and looking like a homeless person.”
― Jessie Buckley
“As I was leaving graduate school in 1974, I was recruited to join a fledgling SETI project at the Hat Creek Observatory in California, mainly because I knew how to program an ancient PDP8/S computer that had been donated to the project.”
― Jill Tarter
“I think everybody does go in expecting they’re making ‘Gone With The Wind’ on their first movie. But you know, that’s just not going to be the case, everybody. Hold onto your hat. Buckle in. It’s probably going to take a few.”
― Jimmi Simpson
“Researches at Yale found a connection between brain cancer and work environment. The No. 1 most dangerous job for developing brain cancer? Plutonium hat model.”
― Jimmy Fallon
“A Yorkshire coal mine during the war was my first workplace. I was 18, and when I was called up, I thought I’d go into the RAF. But my number got pulled out of Ernest Bevin’s hat, and I went down the pit as a Bevin boy to replace all the able-bodied miners who went to war.”
― Jimmy Savile
“Gone are the days when a gentleman lightly took your hand in his and brushed his lips across it, or tipped his hat to acknowledge you as he chivalrously stepped aside to let you pass.”
― Joan Collins
“Do I get recognized? I guess it depends on if I’m wearing a hat or not. The hairdo is a dead giveaway. There’s nothing I can do. It’s just the way my hair grows.”
― Joe Keery
“When my father came out on stage wearing a big cowboy hat and a shirt lettered ‘Bar Mitzvah Ranch’ to sing ‘Home on the Range’ in Yiddish, it was his way of saying, ‘I want to be an American.’”
― Joel Grey
“I always felt so much more comfortable in the Western. The minute I got a horse and a hat and a pair of boots on, I felt easier. I didn’t feel like I was an actor anymore. I felt like I was the guy out there doing it.”
― Joel McCrea
“After our successes on ‘H+,’ I’m thrilled to be returning to another digital endeavor with Bryan Singer, Jason Taylor, and the entire Bad Hat Harry team. We’re excited to be building the foundations of our world with Rockzeline and Blackpills.”
― John Cabrera
“I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I’m happy with it, then I put on my actor’s hat.”
― John Cleese
“We did wanna change the name. We were actually putting names in a hat. It was the people making an income off Motley Crue that talked us out of it. The booking agent was getting them between a half a million and a million dollars a show as Motley Crue. Then there was the manager who got 10 to 15 percent off Motley Crue.”
― John Corabi
“In New York in the Forties or Fifties, everybody’s in a suit, an overcoat and a hat.”
― John Malkovich
“To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.”
― John Mortimer
“And all your future lies beneath your hat.”
― John Oldham
“Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished – if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.”
― Johnny Van Zant
“I’m a mezzo-soprano, so the whole diva thing… I’m not the kind of performer who puts on a persona off-stage as well, and the days of arriving with steamer trunks and hat boxes are over.”
― Joyce DiDonato
“It wasn’t like I just woke up and said, ‘Here’s my gimmick; I’ll wear a hat and put something weird on it.’”
― Judah Friedlander
“My shirt and my hat always say ‘World Champion’ in some language. English, Spanish, Chinese, ‘Star Wars’ language, which is also known as Aurebesh, mermaid language.”
― Judah Friedlander
“The intensity of the story breaking on ‘Vampire’ has never been easy. Every week, you’re starting with a blank board and trying to make a new movie. There’s no formula; there’s no franchise to hang your hat on.”
― Julie Plec
“When I put on my consumer hat, and I’m buying tickets to be entertained, I’m not interested in seeing, like, ‘Don Quixote.’ Unless someone really spectacular is dancing.”
― Justin Peck
“I cry at the drop of a hat.”
― Kalki Koechlin
“I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn’t see my hair in a bun.”
― Katarina Johnson-Thompson
“Even if I wore a hat and a wig, you can always tell it’s me.”
― Kate Moss
“I take my hat off to working mums and especially single working mums. I honestly don’t know how they do it.”
― Katherine Kelly
“When I was about 5 I think, I desperately wanted to be a pirate and have the hat and everything.”
― Keira Knightley
“My grandmother was content to sit in the back yard wearing her old, wide-brimmed summer hat and occasionally getting up to feed herself raspberries from the seemingly inexhaustible bushes.”
― Keith Gessen
“When we first invested in Red Hat, it was thought to be totally insane. When we funded MySQL, it was only partly insane.”
― Kevin Harvey
“People don’t tend to hassle me because when I’ve got a hat on, I look like a banker. I’m just a plain guy.”
― Kevin Spacey
“I have a big head, so I can appreciate a good hat.”
― Khalil Mack
“We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That’s why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they’re going to get a band hat on, and say people aren’t acting the right way?”
― Kim Deal
“Actors walk around wearing these little tool-belts of acting skills. And I just don’t find that interesting to watch. I never want to see someone who clearly can cry at the drop of a hat. That’s so uninteresting.”
― Kristen Stewart
“I’m not a hat person. I really don’t like wearing things on my head.”
― Kylie Bax
“Everywhere you hang your hat is home. Home is the bright cave under the hat.”
― Lance Morrow
“I never travel without my Stetson, but the more I wear it the more I realise that no one wears hats any more. When I was a kid everybody wore hats, especially in Texas, but I get off the plane in Dallas now and I’m the only guy with a hat. It’s amazing.”
― Larry Hagman
“I found it hard being a full-time mum and take my hat off to anyone who can do it.”
― Laura Fraser
“I don’t ever get to the point where anything is old hat.”
― Laurence Fishburne
“The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.”
― Leigh Hunt
“Home is where you hang your hat.”
― Leon Redbone
“At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It’s there with a bunch of other rules I’m not interested in.”
― Lesley Nicol
“Living in Florida, I keep the sun out of my face as much as possible with a nice sun hat, sunglasses, and a sundress I can wear for all occasions.”
― Linda Cardellini
“We’re not one of those bands that throws the names of all their songs in a hat and pulls them out right before they go on stage.”
― Lindsey Buckingham
“I’ve been very happy with the commercial Linux CD-ROM vendors linux Red Hat.”
― Linus Torvalds
“I don’t think you should go around talking trash about people because I think that’s how you get your hat handed to you.”
― LL Cool J
“I don’t play any instruments. I don’t produce. I don’t know which keys or chords I am using, so, in essence, I need the band and the production team – otherwise, I am just some guy with a hat and a song.”
― Lukas Forchhammer
“Two weeks ago at the U.S. Amateur, my mom caddied, and that is kind of a different feeling, because she’s your mom and you have to listen to her. It was really comfortable having my mom there, but it’s also really relieving and comfortable to have someone that knows the course off their hat, really.”
― Lydia Ko
“Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you’re at a dinner table, you’d most certainly take your hat off – cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise.”
― Lyle Lovett
“I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.”
― Malcolm Turnbull
“I went to journalism school, so sometimes writing the script of ‘Being Mary Jane’ is me putting my journalism hat on.”
― Mara Brock Akil
“There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‘Fine,’ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‘What a horror!’”
― Marilyn Monroe
“I’ll talk about the Everglades at the drop of a hat.”
― Marjory Stoneman Douglas
“I always keep my repertorial hat on.”
― Mark Leibovich
“I got beat real hard and heavy in the Olympic Games in 1968 by a guy who swam an incredible race one time in his whole life, but he did it right at the right time. I’d like to be that guy now. Maybe that’s what I’m going to have to pull out of my hat to make the Olympic team.”
― Mark Spitz
“I love Jughead. I love his one-step-removed perspective on everything in Riverdale. And I love the fact that he wears that stupid hat.”
― Mark Waid
“While we’re filming ‘Bake Off,’ I can get really cold, so I’m often holding a hot-water bottle or layered up under an anorak and a warm hat.”
― Mary Berry
“I figured out how to put basically the functionality of an M.R.I. machine – a multimillion-dollar M.R.I. machine – into a wearable in the form of a ski hat.”
― Mary Lou Jepsen
“I can’t imagine being a girl out there on the road. We can throw a hat on and stink. Girls have to do their hair.”
― Matthew Ramsey
“A hat trick in a derby is a special thing.”
― Mauro Icardi
“The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.”
― Max Aitken
“I don’t go in the sun, and I wear SPF daily. I’ll wear a hat and cover my hands, too.”
― Maye Musk
“I’m from L.A., so I’m used to seeing people in sunglasses and flip-flops. There’s something so romantic about a man in a scarf and a knitted hat.”
― Meghan Markle
“A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.”
― Mia Goth
“To keep your skin looking healthy and young, wear a hat.”
― Mia Sara
“I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much for my career as a cowboy.”
― Michael Biehn
“They gave me the chaps and hat and everything. I looked like a real cowboy. I walked around the rodeo and thought, I am a real cowboy and thought everyone thought I was a real cowboy.”
― Michael Biehn
“I can’t remember any of the films I’ve done. You go from one to another, and they all blend in to a big mass. You remember the costumes because you remember how you felt – that Western I did with Kevin Costner where I wore the big hat and the two guns, I remember that.”
― Michael Gambon
“FDR had a certain charisma, at least in his first term, with the big grin, the cigarette holder at a jaunty angle, and the battered hat on his imposing head, but no other American president since then has had it except JFK – indeed, some of them have been positively anti-charismatic, like Gerald Ford, Carter, and the Bushes.”
― Michael Korda
“Towards the end it got really rough. I take my hat of to Alice, he’s still doing it. This is probably more work than going on the road for 2-3 months. I wish I was 25 again!”
― Michael Owen Bruce
“No matter what – rehearsed, under-rehearsed, over-rehearsed, doubts about rehearsing – the first gig is always the first gig, and you put on your little praying hat, batten down the hatch, and do what you do.”
― Mick Fleetwood
“I was about six years old when I did ‘Orchids and Ermine.’ They dressed me in a suit, put a mustache under my nose, a cigar in my mouth, a cane in my hand, and a hat on my head.”
― Mickey Rooney
“Some sunshine is good for the soul, but I always make sure I wear a big hat.”
― Miranda Kerr
“Home is wherever I hang my hat.”
― Miriam Margolyes
“And finding the hat, I always like to find the hat. And then props just dress the set. It’s all fabulous.”
― Morgan Freeman
“I’ll beat him so bad he’ll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.”
― Muhammad Ali
“I used to perform in Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Cold Lake, Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Camrose, Kamloops, Kelowna, Surrey, and all over Western Canada for Stampede Wrestling.”
― Natalya Neidhart
“The problem is that many people operate on the assumption that NASA should go to Congress every year with hat in hand and justify it every year. Well, I see it as the greatest economic driver that there ever was. Economic drivers don’t need justification.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Moms Mabley blazed a path for female stand-ups in a housecoat and floppy hat. Phyllis Diller worked equally hard to make herself unattractive to men and non-threatening to women.”
― Nell Scovell
“I suppose that I’m fairly comfortable with the clown hat on.”
― Nick Rhodes
“I’m sad for younger bands that don’t have a home that they know they can go to, like the twenty-five labels that used to be around that they know they can hang their hat and know that they’ll give ’em three, four, five albums to develop.”
― Nuno Bettencourt
“My hat’s off to Shonda Rhimes.”
― Octavia Spencer
“VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital. There’s this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we’re in anymore.”
― Olaf Carlson-Wee
“I love hats. On tour, it’s difficult to stop in at a barber. It’s good to have a hat nearby.”
― OMI
“Big games are usually about doing the simple things well – not trying to pull a rabbit out of a hat.”
― Owen Farrell
“I may demonstrate the various stages of making a loaf on stage, but they don’t end up in the final product I lift out of the oven at the end. If it were real food preparation, I’d wear a hair net, a hat, and rubber gloves – not a pretty sight.”
― Paul Hollywood
“One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.”
― Paul Klee
“There are probably more annoying things than being hectored about African development by a wealthy Irish rock star in a cowboy hat, but I can’t think of one at the moment.”
― Paul Theroux
“I take my hat off to people like the Stones, but it’s not for me. I couldn’t do that. Jagger is brilliant and long may he rock. I couldn’t make my career out of old songs; it would do my head in.”
― Paul Weller
“A rock’n’roll band needs to be able to get under people’s skin. You should be able to clear the room at the drop of a hat.”
― Paul Westerberg
“I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.”
― Pete Rose
“I was once part of a Christmas cabaret. I sang ‘I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus.’ I tap-danced. I had a ten-gallon hat. It was quite absurd.”
― Peter Dinklage
“I used to have this idea that you can spend years in the movies and TV and then, at the drop of a hat, say ‘Oh, I’ll go back and do the theater.’”
― Peter Falk
“A diploma is a dunce hat in disguise.”
― Peter Thiel
“How a hat makes you feel is what a hat is all about.”
― Philip Treacy
“A person carries off the hat. Hats are about emotion. It is all about how it makes you feel.”
― Philip Treacy
“The personality of the wearer and the hat makes the hat.”
― Philip Treacy
“So my advice is to always choose something simpler – an expressive outfit, plus a hat, can be frightening.”
― Philip Treacy
“Not long ago, a hat was a conformist accessory. Then the 1960s came along, and young people didn’t want to wear hats.”
― Philip Treacy
“People, when they buy a hat, they can’t explain why they want to buy it or why they want it, but they do. It’s like chocolate.”
― Philip Treacy
“The classic hat image was during the Forties and Fifties, and Elizabeth Taylor was the epitome of that; she was the ultimate celebrity of excess and glamour, and she worked major sun hats.”
― Philip Treacy
“There’s a technicality to designing and wearing hats. A hat is balancing the proportions of your face; it’s like architecture or mathematics.”
― Philip Treacy
“The success of a hat definitely lies with balancing the personality of the wearer with the type of occasion. Don’t listen to those rules about face shape.”
― Philip Treacy
“When people come and visit me and have a hat made, it’s a little bit like visiting a psychiatrist, but they don’t actually realize that.”
― Philip Treacy
“I remember in the early nineties people saying the hat was just for old women, but that’s ridiculous.”
― Philip Treacy
“The only person I never made a hat for was my mother because my mother didn’t really – she preferred to make her own hats. I mean, she was intrigued by everything, but she didn’t want one of my hats. She made her own.”
― Philip Treacy
“I believe that I am a hat designer, not a milliner.”
― Philip Treacy
“I always design the hat with the wearer in mind; otherwise, it’s an inanimate object.”
― Philip Treacy
“Gaga is an entertainer, so a hat for her is part of the illusion of entertaining.”
― Philip Treacy
“My aim is to change people’s perceptions of what a hat can look like in the 21st century.”
― Philip Treacy
“Accessories are key – nothing beats a cool Panama hat or statement shades – look to Maison Michel or Miu Miu for inspiration.”
― Poppy Delevingne
“The rise of anime had to happen. If the Japanese could tell better American stories, it would go through the roof. They still tell stories which are very much oriental. I take my hat off to them.”
― Ralph Bakshi
“I can’t walk down the street with my head up. I’m not a hat wearer, but now I’m a hat wearer.”
― Randy Harrison
“I’m part of that original generation that came up playing video games, that pumped a lot of our allowance into video games. We financed the rise of video games. I started playing them in the Straw Hat Pizza Palace at the Carriage Square Mall in Oxnard, CA.”
― Rich Moore
“I believe you leave opinions and views with your hat and coat at the door.”
― Richard Quest
“Here’s an irony of the history of conservatism’s relationship with business and business’s relationship with conservatism: ‘Wall Street’ used to be the right-wing industrialists of the forties and fifties’ greatest term of derision. (Wall Street was the place that humiliated them by forcing them, hat in hand, to beg for capital).”
― Rick Perlstein
“Rickey got a big ranch. Rickey got a big bull. Rickey got horses. Rickey got chickens and everything. And Rickey got a 20-gallon hat.”
― Rickey Henderson
“I always wear my hat backwards. That way, people can see my face.”
― Rickie Fowler
“When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.”
― Rihanna
“Mendelssohn I consider the first musician of the day; I doff my hat to him as my superior. He plays with everything, especially with the grouping of the instruments in the orchestra, but with such ease, delicacy and art, with such mastery throughout.”
― Robert Schumann
“So for Bullitt, I just put my black hat back on.”
― Robert Vaughn
“Cold weather probably played a bigger role in bringing back the hat, but sadly, the hat common to New Jersey guidos, South Carolina rednecks, Idaho potato farmers and Los Angeles gang bangers is the ubiquitous ‘tractor hat,’ which is derived from the cheap baseball style cap with the adjustable plastic tab.”
― Roger Stone
“Timberlake was once a boy-band idol with mismatched baggy attire and the curly, frosted locks of a Cabbage Patch Kid doll. His early fashion missteps included a full denim costume complete with rhinestones and a cowboy hat, and for a time, his hair was twisted in cornrows.”
― Roger Stone
“The dress hat took a nosedive after the dashing JFK showed up at his inauguration bareheaded. Suddenly, a chapeau was no longer de rigueur for any man leaving the house.”
― Roger Stone
“If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man’s hat.”
― Ronald Isley
“I don’t walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says ‘cowboy’ that’s a bit of an over-compensation, probably.”
― Ronnie Dunn
“The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.”
― Roy Blount, Jr.
“I danced a little as a kid here in Canada: in Ottawa at the Elite Dance Studio and at the Top Hat Dance School in Cornwall where I grew up. So I had some experience of having to learn routines.”
― Ryan Gosling
“Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time – and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.”
― Ryan Lochte
“We are in a position where we always have to change more players than we really want to and that brings a lot of instability and makes your job so much harder than it should be, because players come and go almost at the drop of the hat.”
― Sam Allardyce
“Hats look exactly the same. There’s no difference between The Writing Hat and The Acting Hat.”
― Sam Shepard
“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”
― Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
“I love dressing up, though I have to hide my rubbish hair in a hat.”
― Sophie McShera
“I’m always jealous of Johnny Depp’s sense of style, but if I tried to get away with a floppy hat and waistcoat, I’d look like a homeless person.”
― Stephen Merchant
“Pretend you’re a southern sheriff. Or Mae West. Or Donald Duck. Buy a western hat and walk around the house like a cowboy. The point of all this, of course, is to draw yourself out of your accustomed groove.”
― Steve Allen
“I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.”
― Steven Wright
“My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.”
― Taylor Negron
“Language just gradually came in, one or two stressed words a time. Before then, I would just scream. I couldn’t talk. I couldn’t get my words out. So the only way I could tell someone what I wanted was to scream. If I didn’t want to wear a hat, the only way I knew to communicate was screaming and throwing it on the floor.”
― Temple Grandin
“I have a great respect for the academics who are working with the source material. My hat’s off to them.”
― Terri Windling
“My hat’s off to documentary filmmakers. I don’t know if I’m ever going back to it. You’re treated like a second-class citizen at most film festivals. You take the bus while everybody else is flown first-class. If you’re a feature film director, you’re put in a five-star hotel, and if you’re a documentary director, you stay in a Motel 6.”
― Terry Zwigoff
“As snap-backs became more popular, I started to search and expand my hat game.”
― Theophilus London
“I collect different game hats, like Syracuse Women’s Volleyball; I have a Navy Basketball hat. They’re all vintage but in new condition.”
― Theophilus London
“If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, he would draw his hat over his eyes.”
― Thomas Gray
“I actually did an Agatha Christie monologue for my audition showcase at Guildhall, and that’s how I got my agent. Some people said ‘ooh it’s old hat’ and ‘too risky’. Some people think she’s all about the narrative and thriller aspect at the expense of character and I disagree. I did it anyway and it worked well.”
― Thomas Howes
“The Europeans waited so long that they are impacting people who depend on their pensions. We are still early enough to fix it for the next generation. A few states have started scaling back their programs, while others have come hat in hand for billion-dollar federal bailouts.”
― Tim Griffin
“I didn’t want to play a rancher. I didn’t want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn’t.”
― Tim McGraw
“Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service.”
― Tina Brown
“I used to always be putting my hat on children being photographed and then getting home and discovering I was riddled with lice. That used to happen very, very regularly. I used to get headlice all the time.”
― Tom Baker
“The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat.”
― Tom Kite
“If you’re going to wear a cowboy hat, you’re going to have to go all the way. You should have livestock around you, settle all of your disputes with a pistol, and ride a horse absolutely everywhere.”
― Tom Segura
“’Minute to Win It’ is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called ‘Beat the Clock,’ in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one’s wife’s head with a whipped-cream spritzer.”
― Tom Shales
“I haven’t got an ad lib for people throwing bread rolls at my hat.”
― Tommy Cooper
“I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.”
― Tracey Ullman
“When I wear the hat of management, it is important that our management behaves and conducts as management accountable to the board.”
― Uday Kotak
“Hey sky, take off your hat, I’m on my way!”
― Valentina Tereshkova
“When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, ‘What? She’s not a Democrat. She’s a Republican.’ I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn’t necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn’t driven by that.”
― Wendy Davis
“I stayed with them for about a year up there and, at night, worked over in Long Island at a club called The High Hat Club which was like a pseudo jazz / blues place.”
― William Bell
“Saying, ‘I’m going to hang up my hat today, and I’m retiring,’ it’s not a concept for me, and it never has been. I figure, when I’m 81, I’ll play 81-year-old parts, hopefully.”
― William Fichtner
“In 1981, I was a futurist – or at least I was a guy who put on a futurist hat occasionally – and I wrote about the 21st century.”
― William Gibson
“I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.”
― Willie Stargell
“I garden in my Brooks Brothers pajamas and straw hat.”
― Zac Posen
“I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wear for some occasion, but there are not that many occasions you can wear a hat.”
― Zara Phillips
“I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more ‘done’ when your hair is up.”
― Zara Phillips
“I don’t mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.”
― Zara Phillips
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