Sometimes I’ll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don’t always look like a little Barbie doll.
I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren’t afraid of playing their age.
I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.
I had to talk for a long time to explain to the producer why I wasn’t right for ‘Please Don’t Eat the Daisies.’ I also had to explain why I didn’t want to do ‘My Living Doll’ before Robert Cummings was considered for the role.
I don’t want to be a glamour doll. I want roles which provide me the scope to perform.
There were very few British black women on TV or in music when I was a teenager; when you’re growing up, you need someone you can identify with. I remember at Christmas being bought a doll that didn’t look anything like me, so I threw it away.
I started with Katie, a doll I got on eBay on my 10th birthday. I don’t use her anymore. I’ve got a new Katie now, a real ventriloquist’s puppet.
For the majority of my rookie year, I had to lug around a fake baby doll in a pink stroller whenever I was entering and leaving Staples Center.
In ‘Summer and Smoke,’ I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.
I’m definitely a lash girl. I feel they are my best feature. I have tried lots of mascaras. I was drawn to Lancome Doll Lashes recently. Not only because of the name, but it smells like roses! I usually add a few coats of it for a night out.
For months, my parents had been trying to prepare me for the arrival of a real sibling. They had given me a doll to play with and encouraged me to take care of her. And when the baby, a little boy they named Rahm, finally arrived, they encouraged me to help take care of him, too.
I’m not a Barbie doll, I’m just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.
We want ‘Doll & Em’ to be something we’re proud of. We’d love to do another series, but it’s not the be-all and end-all. Our friendship is the be-all and end-all.
My wife is the greatest person I have ever known. She is just a living doll; she is great person and a great mom. We have a girl and a boy, and we are going to have another boy.
I have this fear of coming across as a Barbie doll who got lucky. Style is a big part of who I am, but it’s not who I am. Ya know?
I had a Super Grover doll growing up. Super Grover was very clumsy, he wasn’t very good-looking. But in his own way he’d always save the day.
Robotic toys can be very interesting, but it is important that the toy not ‘dictate’ how the child should play with it. Rather, it should take its cues from the child and enhance, teach, and enrich the play experience. We incorporated some of these features into a robotic baby doll we built for Hasbro in 1999.
‘Pinocchio’s Revenge’ was pretty bad. I was basically a stunt double for a doll.
When I’m introduced at invited lectures at other universities, the students place a Bobo doll by the lectern. From time to time, I have been asked to autograph one. The Bobo doll has achieved stardom in psychological circles.
I’d love to tackle a classic Shakespeare play or take on Nora Helmer in ‘A Doll’s House.’ Musical theater, it’s the classics like Rodgers and Hammerstein and Cole Porter’s ‘Kiss Me Kate.’ I’m much more a Julie Andrews-type soprano than an Idina Menzel.
To be honest with you, Conor McGregor at 170, I think he’s just going to be thrown around like a little rag doll.
After ‘Baby Doll,’ I did some Westerns. I would try to do something so far away from ‘Baby Doll.’
Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
I always loved putting on shows – when you’re the youngest of seven and five are older sisters, you’ve got to get noticed somehow! I did puppet shows and magic shows… even ventriloquism. My doll’s name was ‘Dan,’ and I used to write these scripts, and my schoolmate hid under the table and supplied Dan’s voice.
My signature look is an eighties baby doll dress, combat boots with colorful socks sticking out, and then mounds of jewelry. I love silver and turquoise. I go to Montana every winter, so I hunt around for cool pieces there.
I have done a film like ‘Kaalpurush’ by Buddhadeb Dasgupta and then I also have movies like ‘Musafir,’ where I am an out-and-out glam doll. So I do all kinds of cinema.
I think what happens is, people do just want to see you as a glamour doll that’s put up on screen, but I guess it’s how you see yourself.
I don’t know why I have been branded a glam doll.
I was the kind of kid that always loved babies. I was, you know, four years old, and I would have my baby doll that I would bring with me everywhere and fake breastfeed on the beach and diaper.
