Dita Von Teese Quotes

Dita Von Teese

Profession : Dancer

Birth : September 28, 1972

I feel empowered the fact that I can look the way that I do on stage and in photos - I can look that way any time I want. And I feel like it's important message to other women that they can do it, too.

Dita Von Teese

I don't have long-standing regrets; they pass as I see how things are meant to be.

Dita Von Teese

When I was a little girl, I watched all old movies. My mother liked old movies, and she loved shopping for antiques, so I was around old things all the time.

Dita Von Teese

I started dressing vintage when I was a teenager because I didn't have money for designer clothes.

Dita Von Teese

Well, when I was fifteen years old I worked in a lingerie store and that's how I feel in love with vintage lingerie because I wanted to know the history of it.

Dita Von Teese

When people say I look intimidating, it's hard for me to relate to. I hear that a lot. I don't know why.

Dita Von Teese

Physical beauty isn't so impressive to me.

Dita Von Teese

I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they're not just looking for the latest, most normal thing.

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When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

Dita Von Teese

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

Dita Von Teese

Every one of my products - my lingerie, my perfume, and everything that I do beauty-related with regard to building my burlesque shows - is just me.

Dita Von Teese

Yes, but more than being a designer, I'm more of a stylist, because I don't sew and I don't sketch, but I'm good at putting things together, choosing things that are chic and glossing over the aesthetics of things.

Dita Von Teese

I like styling girls that don't normally dress in vintage clothes and don't normally wear red lipstick; I like seeing those kind of girls restyled in a retro way.

Dita Von Teese

I'd say the only time I ever get nervous is around great ballet dancers or people I really admire.

Dita Von Teese

So I have the green smoothie every day for breakfast, and then sometimes even for lunch too, and then I have a normal dinner.

Dita Von Teese

I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red carpet, I really enjoy the time it takes to do it myself, to choose my clothes and do my own makeup and my own hair.

Dita Von Teese

I'm not always in a full face of make-up! That's actually one of the things I like about make-up - that you can strip it away and show your vulnerability.

Dita Von Teese

I like having my cellphone. I like the Internet. I like being different.

Dita Von Teese

I like when people know who they are, know their limitations and what they want to do. It's the same thing for me.

Dita Von Teese

I'm a designer, producer and I am hands-on for every project I undertake. The creative side of what I do is really something I think people overlooked for a while.

Dita Von Teese