Top 75 Dolls Quotes

I really don’t agree with people who look literally plastic like Barbie dolls. I just don’t think that’s attractive.

We’re trying to get away from the three D’s: dresses, dolls and diaries.

I first came to London as a musician, and when my group broke up, I did ‘Guys and Dolls’ at the Watford Palace theatre. After that, Ned Sherrin found me and brought me to the West End to do one of his shows. The work went from strength to strength, so I thought: ‘This is where the world wants me; I’ll stay.’

I have collections of quirky things from places I’ve been to, like a set of Russian dolls.

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.

I was born Joseph Lane, but when I applied to the actors union, they said they already had a Joe Lane on the books and I’d have to change my last or first name. I had played the character of Nathan Detroit, whom I liked very much, in ‘Guys and Dolls,’ so I took the name Nathan.

When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they’re real dogs.

To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as really children as I was myself a child.

Can I just say here how much I hate the word ‘pamper’? While pretending to celebrate and indulge women, it actually implies that their bodies are so revolting that even their ‘me time’ must be dedicated to turning them into living dolls if potential suitors are to be prevented from running screaming in horror.

I have this dreadful image of me driving down Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, with the windows rolled down, and our song comes on… and I’m sitting there listening to it and some guy pulls up next to me and thinks, ‘Hey, it’s that guy from the Goo Goo Dolls… he’s listening to his own music. What a jerk!’

I was always obsessed with being famous. I had Marilyn Monroe paper dolls as a child, and I was always obsessed with her. I’ve just been really driven in that direction, and none of my friends were. So, I don’t know what put that bug in me at a young age.

I did not play with dolls. I played with a little hammer, paint and wood.

In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, police didn’t have any trouble catching the man because he was completely out of breath.

We like that when girls look at us, they don’t see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.

‘Poltergeist’ was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dolls, clowns, and stuff like that. I’ve always been afraid of clowns, and then my fear of puppets came around, and ‘Poltergeist’ was the perfect combination to scare me with a clown doll.

When I was in the Pussycat Dolls, I did study jazz and pop, but Latin and ballroom were not at all in my world.

I started writing books and making clothes for my dolls when I was around 10 as a way of making my reality exciting. When I went out to play with friends, I always arranged elaborate sets and costumes.

I’ve read ‘Valley of the Dolls’ at least four times. It’s so epic!

I grew up with six brothers, and I’m from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was more like sports and comic books, so getting to work for Marvel is like my version of being able to be a princess.

When I was a little girl, rocking my little dolls, I remember thinking I would be the world’s best mom, and so far I’ve done it.

Parenthetically, I have to say, I don’t particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them.

Well, I swim quite a bit, and ride horseback. That’s supposed to be bad for dancers, but I don’t care – I like it. And then I collect dolls. I have them from lots of foreign countries.

I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I don’t design jackets with three sleeves, or the layers and layers come off like little dolls from Russia. Fashion for me is a creative endeavor, but it is not art for me.

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.

Since too few Americans go to the polls, I say what this country needs is a bobblehead election, where voters will get free bobblehead dolls of their choice when they show up and vote for president.

Growing up, I wasn’t allowed dolls, and my brothers weren’t allowed guns. I inherited my brothers’ clothes. I was never dressed in pink, and they were never dressed in blue; there were none of those rules that people still bizarrely subscribe to.

Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult world around them. They would sit and carry on conversations, making the dolls real people.

I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group.

I can’t just go in and throw clothes at a picture. I still have to have some kind of an idea of a character, of who she is, where she’s from. It’s almost like playing a child’s game. You have your dolls, and you create characters for them. Fashion indulged that in me.

My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.

When I was still playing with dolls, I became aware of this terrible and incomprehensible thing for me: My father was not treated the same as others; we are not treated the same as others.

I played with dolls until I was 15. My mother encouraged it because my older sister got married when she was 15, so Mom thought that the longer I stayed with dolls, the better.

Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.

I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I’m rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real life or in literature, but I know many people who are.

They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women.

A lot of people are afraid of dolls – everybody remembers ‘Chucky.’

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.

After the Pussycat Dolls, I was burnt out. So when I left them in 2010, I did take a second to say, ‘Right, I’ve done this for seven years. Who the hell am I as an individual? Do I still want to do this?’

I was never one for dolls.

I used to make clothes for my sister’s dolls. I couldn’t care less for the dolls, but I could make the clothes really easily.

We aren’t just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!

There’s a part of me that always has the little bit of the sassy sexiness in her. That’s probably why I ended up with The Pussycat Dolls in the first place.

There used to be Engelbert dolls with sideburns. Now they sell Elvis dolls with the sideburns, but I don’t begrudge him that.

I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.

I was always very maternal with my friends. I wasn’t the kind of little girl that played with dolls and pretended I was the mommy. I wasn’t that child, so when I say I was always maternal, I don’t mean in that sense – but I’ve always been a nurturer.

My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on ‘The Tonight Show.’ It was this Barbie commercial where I got to pour mud all over Barbie dolls and watch the heads pop off. It was so exciting, a lot of fun.

We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.

Little girls love dolls. They just don’t love doll clothes. We’ve got four thousand dolls and ain’t one of them got a stitch of clothes on.

There’s always those few people that are like, ‘Why don’t you play any of the material off your first two records?’ And I’m like, ‘For the same reason that I don’t play with G.I. Joe dolls anymore.’ It’s like, ‘I’m a grown-up.’ I wrote that music when I was a kid.

Laurie Simmons began showing her photographs in New York in the late ’70s: black-and-white and then candy-colored scenarios with plastic dolls in 1950s-style domestic interiors.

My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it’s big and overwrought, but it’s just paper dolls, and it’s kind of silly.

I didn’t like playing with dolls; I didn’t like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence… I wasn’t really comfortable.

Growing up, I was very conservative in my wardrobe, so when I first joined the Pussycat Dolls, the biggest challenge was wearing those cabaret costumes. I didn’t feel comfortable showing my body so much, showing my legs and butt, chest and midriff.

I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.