I’ve had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother’s makeup and paint all of my dolls’ faces, and I even painted the dog’s face!
I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first ‘punk’ rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn’t find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
I was totally all about the American Girl dolls when I was little – I had so many.
Since I was as young as I can remember, my dolls became my babies. I still have my teddy bear from childhood that I named Mama Bear because, actually, I wanted to be the mama.
I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.
I would ask my mum to feed my dolls and make sure they were tucked in when I went to school.
Every once in a while, I find something that I’m interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.
When I was a child I loved my dolls and I was practically born with a needle in my hand. I really had an aptitude for sewing – my mother taught me. I even learned to embroider when I was very young and I made the most fantastic dresses for my dolls. So I thought I could be a designer.
The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.
You know it’s a good show when you involve fire and dolls and unitards.
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.
The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven’t played with.
I don’t find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater projects. The characters are just cut-out dolls with the American flag sewn on them.
With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren’t very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.
People always want us to go back to the Island of the Dolls in Mexico or to Chernobyl – which I’m not going to go back to – or to this haunted forest in Romania.
I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don’t want to totally change them. I don’t want them to look like plastic dolls.
I started acting in junior high. I was in ‘Guys and Dolls.’ I was Stanley Kowalski. In my head, before coming to Hollywood, I thought, ‘I can play anything.’
A lot of photographers like models to be blank canvases – but bland girls don’t influence me. I don’t like playing with dolls; I like playing with people.
Sinatra is so connected with the persona of the ‘Guys and Dolls’ characters even though he had great conflicts with Frank Loesser personally.
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.
Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We’re dolls; we made a wish to become alive.
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