Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.
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Related Through their play Barbara imagined their lives as adults. They used the dolls to reflect the adult ... RUTH HANDLER My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls com... HAILEE STEINFELD Before that, plastic was a synonym of bad products. From the Middle Ages on, dolls were given infant... CRISTIANE VON Little girls love dolls. They just don't love doll clothes. We've got four thousand dolls an... JEFF FOXWORTHY Girls don't want Barbie dolls - they want Ken. MARK VORTICE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I liked dolls as a child, but as an adult, I love them! They represent the good in all of us and dis... GAYLE WRAY They were using the dolls to project their dreams of their own futures as adult women. RUTH HANDLER We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. BENJAMIN JOWETT We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. SHARON STONE We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do. SHARON STONE I am a collector of dolls and doll parts. I'm rarely creeped out by most dolls, either in real l... ELLEN DATLOW People are obsessed with actresses being hairless, fatless Barbie dolls. GABY HOFFMANN Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions. STEPHEN KING When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters. DAKOTA FANNING I was always the freaky Asian girl who drew these weird-looking Barbie dolls in class. YAYA HAN In the past few decades quite a few people have suggested -- citing most often the offence of imposs... EULA BISS Growing up, my dolls were doctors and on secret missions. I had Barbie Goes Rambo. ZOE SALDANA My mother used to read to me every night when I was little. We got through most of the major fantasy... WENDY FROUD I've read 'Valley of the Dolls' at least four times. It's so epic! ASHLEY MADEKWE You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what chi... CATE BLANCHETT I have an action figure, and so do my parents, so it's odd that we all have these dolls of ourse... JULIET LANDAU My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commer... BRIE LARSON An art doll itself is actually a sculpted human figure. They are totally different from play dolls. JACK JOHNSTON She loved all her children. If they were upset, she was upset about them. She would buy dolls for th... ANNE BOYD Some months later, the Van Tassel children invited classmates home to play with their new doll. This... RUSSELL KIRK Everything here is natural. We don't have any plastic toys or fake dolls. Our students knit their ow... JANE MULLAN I will continue to make the dolls as long as their little kids that miss their daddy or their mommy ... AMY BERARD When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they'r... ELLE FANNING He was a kid and was into kids. He would play in the snow with them, even play baby dolls. LYNN PETERSON 'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred, but fascinated, me with puppets and d... JAMES WAN I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls. EMMA WATSON There's nothing quite like the sight of two dozen half-naked octogenarians. We enter the stage of li... ANTHONY MARRA CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects... HENRY SELICK My work is really abject and self-effacing sometimes. I mean, it's big and overwrought, but it... KARA WALKER Failures are just the rest stops on your highway to Success. GAYLE WRAY Baby-dolls are for little girls, or someone who thinks they are still a little girl. I'm just not su... CONSTANCE WHITE To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as re... ANNIE BESANT I grew up with six brothers, and I'm from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not aroun... CHLOE BENNET The row of dolls watched her impassively from the bookshelf, their tea party propriety almost certai... HOLLY BLACK We are all just little dolls of ourselves. Who occasionally pull back the curtains to reveal the rea... BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN I like to party, and by "party" I mean "make dolls. GAYLE WRAY Money bought freedom; without it one could never be free. JACQUELINE SUSANN People?" As though she'd never heard of such a thing. "They're like dolls. Plastic and shiny and fak... DIA REEVES Where are you taking us?" Nico said. "You should be honored, my boy. You will have the opportun... RICK RIORDAN Sock monkey dolls make everyone smile. DEE LINDNER This club doesn't make traditional dolls. LINDA EASLEY Ever since I was a little girl, I loved to make things. I always made dresses for my Barbie dolls. W... STACEY BENDET people are like barbie dolls they're beautiful,pretty,caring,fun and everything.....but if you look ... HAGAR IBRAHIM The babies looked like dolls flying out of the window. CINDY GREGORY We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbi... SCOTT WESTERFELD I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in ... PETA WILSON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that con... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I like 'Guys and Dolls,' 'Singin' in the Rain' and 'A Star Is Born.' Whe... JOHN CARNEY I will refine somebody in a minor way, but I don't want to totally change them. I don't want... DOUGLAS KIRKLAND When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and stuffed animals, pretend like they're re... DAKOTA FANNING You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do... CATE BLANCHETT The Dolls were the forefathers of glam. You never knew if they were going to kiss you or punch you. ... SHAWN AMOS It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill JUDE WATSON 'Poltergeist' was really the film that really scarred but fascinated me with puppets and dol... JAMES WAN I've always loved dolls. I had one all my life - we were a family of nine. YVONNE BEAUVAIS I love to design. I am a commercial fashion designer. I always design jackets with two sleeves. I do... TOM FORD All of The Dresden Dolls upcoming scheduled appearances at European Festivals have been cancelled. AMANDA PALMER I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don't remember being very thorough with them and maki... JESSICA BIEL The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude. JOHNNY THUNDERS 'Poltergeist' was the film that scarred me for life. I saw it at such a young age - 5 or 6 y... JAMES WAN And all I can taste is this moment And all I can breathe is your life Cause sooner or la... AMY PLUM There's a couple I really like. I like the paper dolls ... the Queen Victoria. CONNIE BAKER It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea. JUDE WATSON You can't do opera when already from the 10th row you can only see little dolls on the stage. In... DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU If sex were all, then every trembling hand Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words... WALLACE STEVENS I've always done a lot of different things - quilts and making dolls and stained glass - but this ha... LIN DUTTON Honour looked so much like a child herself, confined to bed, a white nightgown, like one of those ma... RUTH AHMED Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning gra... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I can't guarantee the effects of voodoo dolls. But if you believe in it, it will surely bring some c... YANG MIN I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old. BILLIE HOLIDAY There's a good family of actors in 'Portlandia.' It's a small community with people ... JONATHAN KRISEL Since I was as young as I can remember, my dolls became my babies. I still have my teddy bear from c... JACQUELINE FERNANDEZ In West Virginia yesterday, a man was arrested for stealing several blow-up dolls. Reportedly, polic... CONAN O'BRIEN I've always loved going to see Broadway shows. I've seen 'em all: Rent, Chorus Line, Cat... MICHAEL SHOWALTER My hope would be that with the two dolls, they'll be able to appeal to a broader range of ages. BOB BUCHANAN Can I just say here how much I hate the word 'pamper'? While pretending to celebrate and ind... JULIE BURCHILL Can't fight the moment of truth in your lies. GOO GOO DOLLS At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no f... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Ladies, let me clue you in on a little secret...Men are not dolls and they don't need us to take car... JOY MANISCALCO I don't find anything interesting about the choices a character faces in major films or theater ... AMANDA PLUMMER Champion Ven knelt in the ruins of the village. Sifting through the rubble, he lifted out a broken d... SARAH BETH DURST Become a dollmaker, there are NO limits to your awesomeness, you can create anything you can imagine... GAYLE WRAY We knew that Amazing Amanda was going to be huge this holiday season. Our early read is that sales o... KATHLEEN WAUGH As we grow up we're no longer interested in dolls, we're suddenly interested in boys. Oh how we love... JOY MANISCALCO Dolls, perhaps more than any other object, demonstrate just how thin the line between love and fear,... ELLEN DATLOW 'Harry Potter' really harnessed the imagination of so many young-adult minds, and it's t... KATE WINSLET As a child we play with imagination and enjoy life but as an adult when you use your imagination you... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD Feminism isn't about hating men. It's about challenging the absurd gender distinctions that ... ROBERT WEBB What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams... MARGARET ATWOOD American sex shops are the most bizarre. They sell these inflatable dolls, but they also sell just t... BILLY CONNOLLY Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; the... BERNARD SUMNER
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ELLEN BURSTYN The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you w... ELLEN BURSTYN I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have ... ELLEN BURSTYN To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it. ELLEN BURSTYN I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it. ELLEN BURSTYN I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after... ELLEN BURSTYN Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that... ELLEN BURSTYN Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high. ELLEN BURSTYN I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M... ELLEN BURSTYN I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow... ELLEN BURSTYN I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so ... ELLEN BURSTYN She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings. ELLEN BURSTYN We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to ... ELLEN DEGENERES I get those fleeting, beautiful moments of inner peace and stillness - and then the other 23 hours a... ELLEN DEGENERES I eat cheese and salami and a lot of fried chicken. I eat a big bag of oatmeal-raisin cookies every ... ELLEN BARKIN If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one... ELLEN DEGENERES The abundance of cheap food with low nutritional value in the Western diet has wreaked havoc on our ... ELLEN GUSTAFSON Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the w... ELLEN DEGENERES It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they... ELLEN DEGENERES I have very poor eyesight, and I can't imagine a world without my glasses or contacts. ELLEN HOLLMAN For one thing, I don't think art needs to be about suffering; sometimes it really seems like it&... ELLEN FORNEY Things will get easier, people's minds will change, and you should be alive to see it. ELLEN DEGENERES We have to ask, 'How can we break a huge challenge like sending humans to Mars into a series of ... ELLEN STOFAN So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an impor... ELLEN BASS When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four m... ELLEN GOODMAN I just want to find somebody special, somebody that I click with. ELLEN DEGENERES The woman pastor would often be, especially for women and children, a better minister than the clerg... ELLEN KEY We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected ... ELLEN GOODMAN