Taking a child to the toy store is the nearest thing to a death wish parents can have.
I had really specific ideas of what kind of mom I was going to be and what kind of things I was going to provide for my child – even down to the organic, wooden toys Birdie was going to be allowed to chew on. Then cut to my daughter being obsessed with every plastic, 99-cent store toy.
Usually, if you smile at them and show some interest in the toy, they will give it to you. That’s a straight up Democrat move!
I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I’ve got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.
My first baby toy was a basketball and ever since, I’ve had a basketball in my hands.
My dream is to star in an animated movie and to have a toy made after me.
We hope ‘Toy Story 3’ looks amazing but still retains the character design of the first film. I like to think it looks like ‘Toy Story’ would have looked back then had we had the skills and the technology.
We got together as a group to come up with the idea for ‘Toy Story 3’ in the same cabin where we dreamed up ‘Toy Story.’
We’ve always had ups and downs at Pixar, starting with the high we felt doing something we’d never done – ‘Toy Story’ – and the low we felt right after when we realized we’d messed a bunch of things up along the way.
Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested – for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
Starting out, I bet I didn’t get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I’m not consciously thinking, ‘Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.’ It’s just what my voice has done.
I always liked Darth Vader. I remember, when I was a kid, I went to the toy store for the Darth Vader pencil case. I took that to school for years.
People loved the first two ‘Toy Story’ films so much, and the last thing I wanted to do was make a disappointing third film.
My dad worked for different companies that made whiskey for a long time, so we were definitely whiskey drinkers. Growing up, my friends would get toy cars, and I would get swag from whisky companies.
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he’ll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
There was a submarine that I desperately wanted to buy in the toy shop. My father said, ‘No, you go and build it yourself.’
My kids are four years apart. They’re constantly fighting, hitting each other, grabbing the toy away from the other.
I think kids are natural actors. You watch most kids; if they don’t have a toy, they’ll pick up a stick and make a toy out of it. Kids will daydream all the time.
A toy is seen both as a bauble and as an intellectual machine.
I’m a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.
I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world – I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
