Top 191 Closet Quotes

I reorganize my closet nearly every week.

I am really bad with cleaning my closet.

You don’t know that you‘ll ever have to talk about the skeleton in your closet.

It’s an honor to see that green jacket in the bedroom closet, but I’m not going to become somebody else because I won the Masters.

I was always a closet blues player.

My closet is my happy place.

My perspective is hard because I look at wardrobe from very much a guy‘s perspective. You look at my closet and I have pairs of black jeans and five button-downs, but one’s silk, one’s cotton. They all are slightly different, so that’s my perspective.

Bankers are the most obvious class of closet freeloaders, but they are certainly not alone. Many a lawyer and an accountant wields a similar revenue model.

My second husband encouraged me to go to a writing group at our local theatre. It was my ‘coming out of the closet’ moment.

Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.

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Honestly, I need some type of tight piece of clothing in my closet. As weird as that sounds, I love to wear sweatpants and cargos, baggy clothes, so much.

Pence is far too conservative for me, but by all accounts, he’s an intelligent, experienced, decent man with no skeletons in his closet.

I am not allowed to be afraid. My mother made me like that. As a child, if I was afraid of the dark, she would lock me in the closet. Things like this. And she would talk about the time she spent in the concentration camp, but not about being afraid, only about the good side of it.

Everyone‘s got skeletons in their closet, and I’ve got a million in mine, believe me. I tested the envelope; I pushed it. Whenever somebody in authority told me not to do something, I did it just to find out why they said not to do it.

It’s not good for you to be barred from traveling to certain places in your head because some skeleton is in the closet.

I spent a couple years just earnestly praying, asking the question that I don’t think we ask enough: ‘God what do you want to do with me?’ Really getting into our prayer closet, seeking His heart, asking what He wants to do in our lives.

I never cared about buying things for myself, like clothes. And then all of a sudden I realized how great it is to be very precise about the shirts that I wear and all the things that are a part of my closet. So the ritual of fashion and shopping became very personal to me.

I’m kind of a closet redneck.

My personal closet has mostly vintage and thrift store finds because I like to recycle in many ways.

Sweaters are a closet staple. They look great under a leather vest or with a pair of tailored trousers.

You’d probably think I’m schizophrenic if you looked in my closet.

I am an organization freak. I am such a freak that in my closet, shoes, belts, ties – everything is color-coded and organized that way. Not a shoelace is out of place.

I’m a closet ‘Real Housewives‘ fan. Any season, any year.

Two months later at a party, Bernard pulled me into a closet and proposed. I said yes.

I don’t have anything against homosexuals, but ‘Cigano’ needs to get out of the closet.

There’s a lot of skeletons in my closet!

Being ‘ethnically ambiguous‘, as I was pegged in the industry, meant I could audition for virtually any role. Morphing from Latina when I was dressed in red, to African American when in mustard yellow, my closet filled with fashionable frocks to make me look as racially varied as an Eighties Benetton poster.

What’s in your closet, John Podesta?

I have a passion for sweaters. Besides jeans, they are the clothes I have the most of in my closet. I must have a hundred!

Do you know I keep a picture of Hattie McDaniel in my closet in an 8-by-10 frame?

Drew is a shopaholic. He must have 400 suits and 180 pairs of shoes. I have three pairs of jeans, and that’s it. I shop in his closet and take anything I want.

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I’d pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

Sure, I could of done it different… put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.

It’s a wonderful side effect of what we’re doing, to give someone the strength to come out of the closet to their family, or simply present themselves aesthetically in a way they feel happy with, whether or not their friends are going to be allowed to like them anymore.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

There are shoes in my closet that people would go crazy over. That’s where my giving back comes in. I might never wear these shoes, but some kids would go crazy for them.

My closet is in perfect order at home. All my dress shirts, all my casual shirts. All my suits, they’re color coordinated. All my ties are color coordinated.

Someone once told me that being in the closet is like living in a vertical casket. Perfect description.

I actually cannot stand a room without a view – I would rather have a bedroom the size of a closet with a view over a suite without one.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

Remember that I was out of the closet at the age of sixteen. My parents knew I was gay; I’d had to tell them.

Coming out of the closet doesn’t always mean liberation.

In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

A closet full of wire hangers can be the most dangerous place in the world.

I realize it’s a cliche almost, that coming out of the closet is a very healthy and empowering thing to do, but for me, it really has been a truly wonderful thing.

I’m going to make my own ‘Trapped In The Closet’ one day, about a black kid growing up in the hood.

I’m like every other woman: a closet full of clothes, but nothing to wear: So I wear jeans.

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I’ve always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I’ve had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for ‘The Shadow Hero.’

When you admit that you are married, people try to get skeletons out of your closet. They dig into your personal lives and link you with strangers, which could be detrimental. They also want to know details about your marriage, children, and so on. I wanted to keep it private because I only want my work to speak.

My closet is a sea of black pants, skirts, tops, and bags, so it’s great to come across a brand that makes me want to break out of my fashion rut! The Sequence Collection is an accessories line that is all about color, from funky woven bracelets to brightly-patterned bags.

I dream of a not-so-distant future in which every woman can wake up, decide what she’ll wear from the millions of styles in her digital dream closet, and have her outfit magically delivered to her before she finishes her coffee.

My closet is pretty organized, I’m proud to say. It’s set up by type of clothes and then by color. And then, of course, there’s the rotating from spring/summer to fall/winter.

I had been, you know, held in the closet for two months and, you know, abused in all manner of ways. I was very good at doing what I was told.

Sometimes you have to lie to yourself to get through the criticism, and then you’re in your closet crying. It’s been like that for me a couple of times, but I only want to learn from those things.

I have so much hair; I have a separate wig closet in my house.

God is definitely out of the closet.

Sometimes it feels like it hurts when you make a big purchase, so I really believe that the more expensive things should be gems that you keep in your closet, not trends.

Every single person around the world has this storage facility in their bedroom, and we call it a closet, and 80 percent of the stuff in that storage facility is worn three times or less in its lifetime.

I don’t do press for the sake of press. I tend to only be in the press when I’m introducing something or collaborating on something or whatever it may be, as opposed to inviting someone into my home to photograph my closet for no particular reason.

I’ve always been dabbling in suits, but like a lot of people in the neighborhoods I grew up in, I had my snapback; I had my v-neck. I still got them in the closet. I got my J’s, my Forces; it was standard.

In the early years, I found a voice that was my voice and also partly my father‘s voice. But isn’t that what you always do? Why do kids at 5 years old go into the closet and put their daddy‘s shoes on? Hey, my kids do it.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

My closet is organized by tops, pants, and outerwear, but not a lot of dresses. Gowns are in another room because I don’t often dress formally, even though I design gowns. Like most designers, I have a uniform, and mine is a legging.

If you look at pop stars through the ages, we’ve had camp, glam popstars from the 80s – your George Michaels and what have you – but then people went back to the closet a bit, and became more homogenised and generic.

What I think I sell with my clothes is confidence, so hopefully all my dresses, my accessories, are friends to the women. When you open the closet, and your eyes are swollen, and you don’t like the way you look, you go to your friends.

My aunt Maxie had a plastic guitar in her closet, and I started playing that, going nuts on it. I went to stay with my dad, and he saw how much I was into it, and I put my first guitar on layaway. It was a Kay Starter Series guitar and Gorilla amplifier.

I spent so much time in the closet in the Marine Corps and I wasn’t going to hide who I was. If it meant I was going to lose out on opportunities, they weren’t meant to be.

I’ve dealt with a lot of couples over the years, and most cite the battle for closet and bathroom space as one of the most frequent causes of marital discord.

My Emmy is in my china closet. People don’t really look at it, though.

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It’s not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

I have no respect for someone who lies about their sexuality. At the very least say ‘no comment‘, just keep your personal life personal. If you’re going to closet yourself, that sends a negative message.

When I moved in, I said, ‘I don’t care how this makes me look or sound: I am converting one of these bedrooms into a shoe closet.’ It’s become more of a dressing room, but one wall is shoes in their perfect cubbies.

Drogba. I used to grow up watching football and when I saw him that was it. I’ve got his jersey in my closet. That dude is a legend for what he achieved at Chelsea.

It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the ’50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!

When you have built a $3 billion company out of a broom closet, I think you are entitled to a nice house.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

I remember opening my dad’s closet and there were, like, 40 suits, every color of the rainbow, plaid and winter and summer. He had two jewelry boxes full of watches and lighters and cuff links. And just… he was that guy. He was probably unfulfilled in his life in many ways.

Most guys open their closet and tend to wear about 10% of what they own – and they wear that 10% over and over again. So the trick is to be honest with yourself and figure out what that 10% is.

I have a very well organized closet.

I know I seem really friendly, but I’m a closet introvert.

I have been doing merch’ since I was 15 and in bands when I was a teenager – silk-screening shirts, making the emulsion in my mom’s closet I converted into a dark room, through college. That’s essentially how us bands survived was selling homemade t-shirts.

When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.

I’m a huge closet Mariah Carey fan – she’s got one of the best voices probably ever.

Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!

As someone who was once in the closet, I can tell you it is the most sad, dark, awful, depressing place to ever be.

The most real characters in a great play are those who are so meticulously drawn that the audience could predict how many pairs of shoes they might have in their closet or how many close friends they had in grade school. Have any of our public figures been as fully developed in the media?

My friend, there is no end when it comes to ‘Trapped In The Closet.’

I could type in a closet and be fine. It’s just a matter of cocooning myself. Just me and the story.

I have never been afraid to go a bit out there with what I am wearing on film. I tend to be a bit more conservative in real life, with mountains of black in my closet.

Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone’s appropriated them. It’s an illicit act. It’s unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That’s how I feel.

Let’s be honest, ‘Ginza’ doesn’t really have lyrics to speak of. It’s a party track – a party for reggaetoneros to come out of the closet.

I grew up sitting in my closet waiting to go Narnia.

A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday… literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet – such a great memory.

We must bring the issue of mental illness out into the sunlight, out of the shadow, out of the closet, deal with it, treat people, have centers where people can get the necessary help.

Just because they’re going to the gym, a lot of guys wear old T-shirts that look like they’ve been lying in the closet for 15 years. My workout clothes have to work.

When I was a kid, Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O’Donnell were mere blips on the gaydar; and they were both still in the closet.

If I was ashamed of who I am, I would be in the closet.

I am a closet metal fan.

I remember playing in my mom’s closet with Kim as little girls – we had this game we played, I was Donna Karan, and she was my assistant, and I was really bossy.

Perhaps it’s the artist in me, but most days, I try to reflect the atmosphere my spirit is breathing in and let the wind carry me to the garments that can deliver that look and feeling in my closet.

I’ve always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.

Like leggings, comedies created by women came into vogue in the late 1980s, exploded in the early ’90s, went mainstream in the mid-’90s, and were shoved into the back of the closet around 1997.

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn’t really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.

Players do not come out of the closet because they are afraid. We have to appear hard and strong, but we are afraid of what people will say about us. Of course, I have nothing against anyone. I respect everybody.

Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.

I lived in a pretty big house, and we had a guesthouse, so when I was 14, I built a studio in my bedroom, which was pretty big. It was two rooms connected, so I turned the second into a studio and ran the mic in my closet.

I had a rough spot about being a goody-goody Mormon, and not drinking or smoking. But I’m kind of grateful I’ve got this image now. There are no skeletons in my closet. What you see is what you get.

I don’t think I really do go shopping. Somehow clothes just kind of end up in my closet. I do not like shopping; I’m not into it.

I’m not a gay-basher, because gay people buy my records. Why would I be offended by your sexual preference, unless I’m in the closet? If ya like boys, go get all the boys ya want.

For a celebrity with image challenges, kids can be game-changers. It’s no accident that Clay Aiken came out of the closet cuddling his newborn.

It’s good to get out of the closet and talk about it and find out other people’s views.

The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Like every actor I too have some ‘classics‘ in the closet, but I am not keen on adding to that collection.

I couldn’t care less about fashion. If I had taken any clothes home, they would have remained in my closet for the rest of their existence.

I didn’t want to stay in the closet to get work. I wanted to be out whether it affected my career or not.

I was always a closet lover of acting. My mom was very practical. She never, ever restricted our dreams, always told us we could do or be anything. Then I said, ‘Maybe I want to be an actor’. And she said, ‘Maybe not that’.

The expectation was that ‘True Confessions‘ would be my first published book, but that didn’t happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.

I like my money right where I can see it… hanging in my closet.

Every morning, I look in my closet and say, ‘What do I wish was here?’ It’s looking for what’s not there and making it available.

I’d behave savagely if I had access to Bjoerk’s closet.

I’m not a huge dresser-upper. Most of my closet is jeans, T-shirts, tennis shoes, and flats. I don’t even know if I have a sequin gown in my closet.

The difference between being in the closet and out of the closet as a gay man is such a huge shift. I feel so connected still to that 22-year-old, but the idea that I was not open with that part of my life – which I am now so open about – is sort of surreal.

A lot of the stuff I was on ‘All Stars,’ it wasn’t new, it was all stuff out of my closet and stuff that I made myself.

I was a closet stutterer.

I have a tightly edited closet. I like what I like. And I repeat a lot. But I’m always comfortable in jeans – I feel like I can really do anything when I’m in them.

At the end of the day, what really matters in ‘Poltergeist’ is that Carol Anne is missing and they have to go through a portal in the closet to get her back. That matters more than the backstory.

All I can really say is to encourage anybody who’s in the closet to come out, and congratulate anyone who has.

As opposed to thinking about ourselves as disrupting the fashion industry, we’re thinking about ourselves more broadly – about disrupting the closet and how you get dressed.

I’m a closet nerd. I love to study history and visit museums.

I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.

I hate a messy closet. I totally freak out when my closet is messy and I can’t find anything.

I’m going through an evolution. I’m completely cleaning out my closet. I’m purging, because I saw that show ‘Hoarders.’ I had a sweatshirt from sixth grade, and I’m going, ‘Why do I hold on to this?’

Some courts have said moving an employee to a basement or closet usually amounts to punishment. But others have said this is a decision that should be made case by case. How nice is the basement office? How big is the closet?

Whenever a president nominates somebody to a high-profile post, there is always the risk that some skeleton, real or imagined, will emerge from the nominee‘s closet and doom the whole enterprise.

I know what I like; if you go to my closet, I have at least four of everything.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

I have a whole fur closet. I’m not afraid of PETA.

When you’re in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

As a kid, it was always my dream to open a closet and end up fighting dragons or battling aliens.

Growing up in North Carolina, my mom was always just sort of my mom to me. I never really recognized her as a famous actress. I’m always thrilled when she’s cleaning out her closet. Last time, I got a pair of boots that she bought in Paris 20 years ago. I have completely worn them out.

I haven‘t always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I’ve come out of the closet.

Like a bathroom singer, I am a closet artist, but you need time to paint.

There’s a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they’re wearing. I’m not gonna act all ashamed of it.

There was a period where I was like, ‘I’m gonna have to be in the closet if I want to be successful.’ But then I sort of made the decision right when I graduated college that that wasn’t going to be my route. Even if it took longer to get work, I at least was gonna be true to myself.

My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called ‘my mother’s closet’ that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.

I’d rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It’s the process I like – the same with getting dressed. If I’ve got someplace to be, I’ll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.

All the clothes in my closet are Oakland, California, clothes. You can’t wear those anywhere else. The barometric pressure drops and then where are you?

Because of what’s going on with the economy, I think women are realizing that maybe they don’t need a closet full of clothes. They just need the right clothes.

I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, and I honestly started performing for my family when I was around three. I would jump up on the coffee table and I would get in the closet and ask that they introduce me to come out, and from that point on, my mother stuck me in dance class and children’s theater.

The secret I’ve lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that’s always my closet.

When I first started Lion Babe, I wore a lot of denim to perform in because I had a limited closet. A lot of the time, I was in cutoff shorts – either dark or light denim – and then I would pair them with whatever top I had.

Life is just more comfortable if you’re honest and open about everything. I spent so many years being in the closet about one thing or another.

Once I came out of the closet, it was sort of that thing of ‘The truth will set you free.’

I love fashion! I love clothes! I really like vintage clothes, so in my closet there’s a lot of ’50s stuff. I go to the stores and shop around.

I have one closet that’s just shoes. The woman go, ‘Amen,’ and the men go, ‘Oh my God.’ It’s color-coordinated from the ceiling to the floor, from evening to casual.

You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!

I can’t speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

Yes, I was the child who would sneak into her closet and read ‘Nancy Drew’ for hours after the designated ‘lights out’ time of night.

It upsets me that people think what I’m doing is a bad thing. I don’t think it’s a bad thing. If you know something to be a fact, why not report it?… If I have to drag some people screaming out of the closet, then I will.

I was journaling in Florence, and I was like, ‘Oh, I have to come out of the closet. I have to break up with this guy’ – he was my ‘roommate.’ So that was my awakening moment, when I stepped into my own skin while in a foreign country by myself and had a very stereotypical moment of revelation.

My wardrobe falls into two camps most of the time: either very monochromatic and tailored or really vintagey, with ’30s and ’40s-style long floral dresses. I don’t buy that much, so every time I invest in something new, it has to elevate what I have hanging in my closet.

Every man’s closet should be dark pair of blue jeans, a black jean, and a mid wash jean.

When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he’d always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I’d learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.

I feel like there are a lot of closet wrestling fans out there.

There’s a lot in my closet. I’ve been collecting things since I was five. I’m definitely a pack rat. I’m not a hoarder, but I’m definitely a pack rat. I will keep anything if I have a memory in it or a good moment.

It’s not like I came out in ‘Rolling Stone‘ and all of a sudden I had a closet full of all the clothes I want.

When I was young, I was the sweetheart of the press. They loved me but were kind of waiting for me to mess up. I had no skeletons in my closet, no major past to talk about.

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.

People dance and we have a lot of music and… this might be the closet I get for a while.

When I first started recording music, we would record in the closet with socks on the mic.

I used to play Donna Karan. I used my dad’s home office, and Kim was my assistant. Then one of our friends would play a buyer, and I would take her to my mom’s closet and show her the new collection.

I have some wonderful suits in my closet, a lovely car, some refined watches.

The gay community just recognizes what their closets are and we straight have to spend years trying to figure out which closet we are trapped in.

I’m a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

Ellen DeGeneres is a huge influence in my life. She’s one of the reasons why I wanted to do stand-up comedy. I was a big fan of her stand-up before she even came out of the closet.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

I organize my closet by season, color, and silhouette, but I don’t edit often enough, which causes me to hoard Hermes cuffs in Hermes bags that are crammed into my living room because my closet is overflowing.

For like everyday, just kind of hanging out, I love flannels. Part of my closet, there’s a whole section of flannels because I love them so much. Slouchy, oversized hats and fedoras. I just got these 2 amazing hats that I really love, blue and gold trim with woven material by D&Y. I love D&Y hats.

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they’re always like, ‘Oh, I was a such nerd.’ I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

I do probably come down a little hard on a group of people I call the ‘blue chip gays.’ I mean people who have managed to become very, very famous and are still very famous partly through staying in the closet, like Jasper Johns, Cy Twombly, Susan Sontag, Harold Brodkey and others.

There’s something about a podcast that feels like two people in a closet with the lights off.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys – some very rare stuff.

I don’t even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don’t want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

I have no desire to sell Rent the Runway. I have a 50-year vision for Rent the Runway, at least, to change consumer behavior and actually put the closet in the cloud.

It doesn’t matter if you’re staying at a four-star hotel, you will never have your whole closet with you.

I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn’t a struggle, there wasn’t an attempt to suppress.

I was a closet Journey fan when I was growing up.

Not many skeletons left in my closet because I invite them to dance all over the front room!

After assessing what’s in your closet, make a list of what you need. Not want, but need. Write down the basics missing from your wardrobe. It could be a classic white shirt, a trenchcoat, or the perfect little black dress. Whatever the blank spots, write them down. This will be your reference for shopping.

I have the motto that says, ‘Whatever you see in your closet that you like, pick it and wear it.’ It’s not just your closet, but just your life. Whatever catches your eye. Pick it.