I had a huge interior world as a kid: I'd sit on endless wet holidays in Cornwall playing with paper dolls.
And what did you do last night, Dexter? Oh, I played with my dolls while a friend chopped up my sister.
We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.
Women love to be asked more about their clothes than their work. We're dolls; we made a wish to become alive.
I really don't agree with people who look literally plastic like Barbie dolls. I just don't think that's attractive.
I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls.
I am not a very rough and tough kind of a girl, rather a little sensitive. I believe in unicorns, dreams and dolls.
We aren't just some record to put out before the new Pussycat Dolls CD!
I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.
I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.
I got my Equity card from an audition out of Backstage. We did 'Guys and Dolls' and 'Kismet.'
Most of today's film actress are typical of a mass-production age: living dolls who look as if they came off an assembly line . . .
All people interested in their work are liable to overrate their vocation. There may be makers of dolls' eyes who wonder how society would go on without them.
When I'm older, I'd like to play one of Tennessee Williams's women and an older Adelaide in 'Guys and Dolls.'
We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the real us.
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.'
I always often say, when I was a kid, I wasn't just playing with baby dolls. I was standing in the mirror with brush in my hand as a microphone singing songs.
I was the kind of girl who'd peep through her bedroom keyhole to check if her dolls were moving.
Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo.
I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.
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.
I would ask my mum to feed my dolls and make sure they were tucked in when I went to school.
During my time in the Dolls, I was told that I shouldn't sing, that I wasn't allowed, and I suppose that had an impact on me.
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 am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.
At six
I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
avoiding myself,
my body, the suspect
in its grotesque house.
'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and dolls, clowns and stuff like that.
I was crawling out of the bedroom window with my older sister when I should have still been playing with dolls.
I'm not a big fan of the tchotchkes. It always reminds me of a grandma's stuffy home with a million Santa dolls.
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.
We like that when girls look at us, they don't see perfect little blond-haired, blue-eyed Barbie dolls.
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're real dogs.
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.
Sinatra is so connected with the persona of the 'Guys and Dolls' characters even though he had great conflicts with Frank Loesser personally.
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.
When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words.
What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You are a little girl and therefore you ought to like dolls"; if the answer is, "But I don't," there is no more to be said.
Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.
I like the idea of raising a kid in my trailer. My mother was an actress. I grew up in theater with her in Brazil. I would play with set dolls. And I loved it.
Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them.
At one time my name was on 50 or 60 different items, from dolls to pencil boxes.
I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class.
I've started a line of Manila dolls and they're all going to be wearing my favourite outfits - the spaghetti and meatballs one is the first one, I'm really excited.
Our lives are just spectacles. We are like dolls, in a sense, to be observed and played with - often with cruel and deceitful intentions - in an unreal world.
I used to perform with the Pussycat Dolls before Nicole Scherzinger, before they were a musical group.
She hated their new nickname. It made them sound like deranged Barbie dolls.
Just don't pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don't. Stay open to them. It's teatime and all the dolls are at the table. Listen. It's that simple.
I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourselves. It's a little bit surreal but kind of fun. You can play with the whole family.
Keep thinking. You can hear our brains rattling around inside us, like the littler Russian dolls.
Prayers are to men as dolls are to children. They are not without use and comfort, but it is not easy to take them very seriously.
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 am an opera virgin; I'd far prefer to see a musical such as 'Guys and Dolls.'
People view child actors the same way that girls treat their Barbie dolls.
I only did five or six weeks in 'Guys and Dolls,' and when I was 26 or so, I was in 'Blood Brothers' for a year on the West End, playing Linda, with Kiki Dee.
The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certainly offended.
In most of my stories, I give a lot of importance to heroines. My heroines are not just glamour dolls.
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