Words matter. These are the best Barbie Quotes from famous people such as Jordana Brewster, Alice Ripley, Bretman Rock, Lynda Barry, Becky G, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When I was really young. My sister and I would create different characters with our Barbie dolls – I’d be the crazy diva Barbie and she’d be the homeless Barbie.
It’s hard being a Barbie doll all the time.
Even though my dad came from a family that was very religious, he was actually the first one who bought and let me play with Barbies. My mom, the first makeup I ever used was hers, and she never once said, ‘Oh, you’re so gay for doing that.’
Kids don’t plan to play. They don’t go: ‘Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It’s gonna be a three-act.’
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.
Yep, I often lit the barbie with old drafts.
Our viewers are loyal. They’ve seen Pat and me together for 30 years. It’s like Ken and Barbie. How do you break them up?
I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.
The very first job I did, a Barbie commercial when I was eight or nine, that was like ‘Oh my God.’ Because when you’re watching things on TV, you think it’s like a fantasy. But then to actually do it and then see yourself, it’s like ‘Oh my God.’
She’s like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything’s pink. She makes a certain move that’s ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I’m evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She’s fearless, and I love her.
I didn’t like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.
McDonald’s, Barbie – they’re all icons, recognizable from London to Timbuktu.
I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.
My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn’t allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.
You know you’ve made it when you’ve been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls – it’s a bit scary, actually.
We like that when girls look at us, they don’t see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.
The worst present I got was when I was 10. I had specifically wished for a Barbie horse. My dad got me a cheap, poorly made version of it and I cried all evening.
If I could have a Barbie body, which has no cellulite, I totally would. I would like to have a flatter stomach, but that won’t happen either. That is never going to happen. No matter how much weight I lose, my stomach, below the belly button, always pooches out.
I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.
I’m excited to be a part of the new direction the Barbie brand is headed, specifically how they are celebrating diversity in the line and encouraging kids to raise their voices.
I would just take dolls around the house – there’s old VHS footage from my dad, who was an early adapter and had this RCA camera – and it’s me taking a Michael Jackson Barbie doll and putting on a show with that.
Barbie has always been an inspiration. Dressing her was part of ever girl’s dream.
I thought I could do Barbie’s hair and makeup better than the factory did. So I would get out my markers and scissors and play ‘beauty salon’ with them. Then I would be devastated because I ruined them!
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
My Barbie doll is definitely a reflection of me and my personality. My doll is so detailed, she even has my same beauty marks.
I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.
Me myself, Brian, I’m a Midwesterner at heart, and I have this deep, bone-dry sense of humor, and I’ve found it worked to combine this Barbie with a dry, sarcastic man.
I would buy Barbies and take them apart and then remake their looks. I used them for hairstyling. It was a whole process. I had a lot of dolls – like 150.
I wasn’t the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.
It’s not enough even to have one black Barbie… because black women are not a monolith.
It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.
I was big time into Barbie.
Fact: The new ‘90210’ is cooler than the old ‘90210.’ It’s the lithe, streamlined Skipper to the elder series’ venerable Barbie. Gone are the traditional parents – they’ve been replaced by a hipster mom n’ pop who get busted necking in the car.
I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.
Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.
I remember when John Lasseter called me back in the late 1990s to personally invite me to come be the voice of Barbie in ‘Toy Story 2.’
For my first acting gig, I was a hand model for a Barbie commercial that was only going to air in Asia. And I was constantly trying to get my face in the shot.
Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. When I was 13, I designed my Bat Mitzvah dress.
I had everything you could collect. I had these Spice Girls postcards. I also had the stickers and Barbie girls. I had all five of them. I was a real fangirl. They were actually preaching some cool stuff, the thing about girl power and sticking together with your best girlfriends.
Barbie is just a doll.
My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial – it’s one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dolls… one of those.
I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.
I really don’t agree with people who look literally plastic like Barbie dolls. I just don’t think that’s attractive.
Barbie ruined my life! It’s a really bad image for women. For a long time I thought I was deformed – because my heels didn’t touch the ground. I was walking around on tiptoes. What’s up with that? I think that it’s a bad thing for a woman to try to emulate.
And after every audition I booked, my parents would buy me a Barbie, so that was it for me: You got a Barbie, and you got to hang out with friends. And I thought it was just the best thing ever.
I wasn’t Barbie-obsessed. I think my mother might have been my Barbie.
When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret.
When I wasn’t playing with Barbie dolls, I was always playing with different kinds of balls, and my dad said, let’s try tennis.
I really don’t see little girls growing up and thinking, ‘Oh, I’m going to morph myself so I look like Barbie.’
I’m just as content sitting on the floor playing Barbies with my kids as I am having a glass of wine with my girlfriends.
They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
I did have a 1977 Barbie, but I was more into stuffed animals than dolls.
Authenticity has never been Barbie’s strong suit.
I stay away from the title of ‘role model.’ I want to be a more realistic role model – not a perfect Barbie role model.
I’ll never be like a Barbie girl, that’s for sure.
I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That’s why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.
I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors.
I now have 10-year-olds asking me about how to become successful, how to become a business owner, which is crazy – at 10 I was trying to figure out which Barbie I wanted.
I’m an avid collector of toys. I got everything. Name it. From the Easy Bake Oven to Barbies to every TV show doll, racing cars… I’ve been collecting since I was a little kid.
Mattel stepped up and changed the face of Barbie. Barbie looks a lot different than she did decades ago. Or even three weeks ago.
‘Girl In A Country Song’ is basically a song about what it’s like to be the girl in modern day country songs and how hard it is to be this perfect Barbie doll girl that we are portrayed as.
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 definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don’t remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!
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