Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
I had always been a really peculiar child. My mom would tell you I grew up roughing it with the boys and playing with action figures and toy cars and stuff, but I also had an Easy Bake Oven… I find it amazing that in a really weird way, people are mad that they can’t figure out my gender.
In the Tea Party era, it is the restless conservative Republican who has become passion’s plaything, the toy of impetuous romance, an erotomania only intensified by the lusting for an upstart savior.
I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic.
I was given a stethoscope in a child’s ‘doctor’s bag’ at about age six and I loved it! One could hear the heart beating through that plastic toy.
I’m always going to the toy store; I even have a room full of plastic models.
The absence of doll babies in my toy chest didn’t seriously influence my later decision not to become a mother; rather, I disdained Hasbro’s Baby Alive wetting doll because I was already the kind of girl who would grow up to be childless by choice.
I loved my childhood. They had the coolest toys back then. Star Wars, Transformers, laser-tag gun sets. Toy companies have really gone downhill.
Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
One thinks of toys and play as an area of great novelty and potentiality where all sorts of responses can be developed. The fact that adults are allowing their imaginations to have activity through toy kinds of objects is a further reflection of the belief in the imagination of the adult mind.
When they do bring on new people, it’s good for the show. It’s like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it’s a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren’t used to writing for. They can try different things.
When we did ‘Toy Story,’ that was an all-hands-on-deck situation that really was time-intensive.
I expect the best Anderson Silva. I don’t think he’ll toy with me like he toyed with other guys, I can explode in and touch his chin, and all it takes is one shot.
I collect stuffed animals, and toy stores make me happy.
When we made ‘Toy Story,’ we knew, even back then, that this was going to be the ugliest film we would ever produce.
Look at the films of Walt Disney: ‘Snow White’ came out in February 1938, and I can’t think of another film from that year that’s watched as much. The same is true of ‘Bambi,’ ‘Dumbo’… even, frankly, ‘Toy Story,’ which is probably watched more than any other movie of 1995.
To be five years old is to be surprised by life. I’m amused by my children’s awe at quotidian things – a toy helicopter, a bubble bath, the visible tentacles on a plate of calamari. And I’m envious of their ability to attain something I often can’t: a state of transcendence induced by art.
I worked 10 years as a toy designer before I started my career as a fashion designer. It’s something I just fell into and really liked.
With the first ‘Toy Story,’ we didn’t know what the hell we were doing. We’d never made a movie before, so we went down a lot of blind alleys along the way. We went through seven different writers before we finally settled into our groove.
I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we’d have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
I had three toy buckets, and I would put hot water in them because we weren’t allowed to sit in the jacuzzi – we weren’t old enough – so I would charge people $1, and everyone would line up, and everyone would sit in this disgusting hot water-sand-filled thing, and I would get $1 and go to the snack bar and get an Oreo.
It’s Marvel’s toybox; I’m just glad I’m able to play with the toys and have some impact on what goes on. I didn’t create Daredevil, so I’m not about to stand here and say that I’m the only one who gets to play with the toy.
I was a loner as a child and happiest at home, launching toy rockets and aeroplanes. When I started causing trouble in my third year at grammar school, Mum was really surprised. My parents sent me to a child psychologist, who suggested I might have Asperger’s syndrome.
Boys are easy. I mean, there are just a lot of bruises when they’re young. With boys, you get a lot of accidental jabs in the eye and stepping on your feet, and those tantrums they cause when they don’t want to leave the toy store.
As a kid, I wasn’t allowed to have girl toys, but I would take my cousin’s My Little Pony and smell it. That weird, synthetic, fruity-sweet smell – that’s how I wanted to look. I wanted to look like this fabricated toy. I wanted to look like you could pull a string on my back, and I would say, like, six catchphrases.
We think of ourselves as the best digital ‘toy’ around, and we are excited about the creativity, energy, and passion for success the Roblox platform continues to inspire in our builders.
When I was a kid, my sisters and I used to get a little present in our stocking each day of December, usually an ornament, some sweets, or a little toy.
Hundreds of studies of various cultures have proven that, on average, boys play more than girls with constructional toys like Lego and toy cars, and girls play more with dolls.
The only reason we made ‘Toy Story 2’ is that we happened to come up with a storyline that was really good. It wasn’t driven by wanting to make a sequel.
America is dumb. It’s like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you – aggressive. My daughter is four; my boy is one. I’d like them to see America as a toy – a broken toy. Investigate it a little, check it out, get this feeling, and then get out.
I didn’t want to be known as Madonna’s playboy, her boy toy.
I had grown up in a toy shop in Blackpool and then moved to London to do an acting course.
My favorite toy growing up was Polly Pocket. But one gift that I wanted though never received for Christmas was a pair of trampoline moon shoes. You strap them to your feet and they have springs on them, and you can just jump around!
I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys’ toys; I don’t remember owning any dolls.
I have a toy poodle, Shadow. She’s a little whippersnapper! And I love little monkeys.
Prior to inventing the Geyser Tube toy, dropping a stack of Mentos into a bottle of soda was not always an easy task. The Geyser Tube makes it easy to get a perfect launch every time at heights of 30 feet or more. Tell me… who doesn’t like to see soda shooting 30 feet into the air, all in the name of science?
My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn’t much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I’d call Richard Widmark or Gregory Peck and we’d restage the Battle of the Alamo.
I’ve had a job since I was 11. I had a paper route, I worked at a video store, I was a toy doll at FAO Schwartz when I was in high school. And I think that it’s made me really disciplined when it came to pursuing acting, because I had no clue how to go about it.
It’s incredible how much money you can make on a rubber toy.
I look at other people’s lives, and some people feel like they’re too old to play with toys. But I still go through the toy section at the store, ’cause there were toys that I wanted when I was little that I couldn’t have. So I still get them.
After my first ‘Sports Illustrated’ cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I’m not a toy; I’m a human. I’m not here to be used.
Our parents were very prim and proper, but we always got one toy every day. That was a ritual. The money didn’t really matter.
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.
When I was a boy, my parents would buy me a new toy and I would destroy it. Oh man, I would destroy it. I don’t know why I would do such a thing. I was a little rough when I was a little kid.
I think drag is universal, no matter who does it. I mean, yeah, I am homosexual, but I think everybody likes to toy with their image. I love those guys. I love Milton Berle and Flip Wilson and all those people.
The impact that movies, film, and TV have on me – the way that they can toy with my emotions – is beautiful, and I’ve always wanted to do that for other people.
To a child, often the box a toy came in is more appealing than the toy itself.
I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
I was one of those kids that would take apart the remote control and take all the wheels off my little toy cars.
I’m a Weeble. Remember Weebles? The toy whose tagline was, ‘Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down?’ I’m resilient. Oh, and I work really hard.
