Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Selick

CG can do anything, but it can't do everything well. What it naturally can do is special effects. But using stop-motion comes from our desire to do handmade stuff. There are always going to be kids who get out whatever it might be - clay, bits of wire, Barbie dolls, Legos. They want to tell little stories.

Yaya Han

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

Jason Wu

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.

If Barbie is so popular, then why do we buy all her freinds?

Girls don't want Barbie dolls - they want Ken.

For years, Katie has had a fascination with Beetles, especially the newer versions that came out several years ago. She has a Barbie Volkswagen Bug and even one for her dollhouse collection. She can spot the car wherever we go.

Vanna Bonta

I didn't have a Barbie doll, so I played with eternity.

World events may help the success of new patriotic products like Rescue Heroes from Fisher-Price. Yet retailers still see evergreen brands such as Mattel's Barbie and traditional LEGO leading the way off store shelves in the next few months.

I think Barbie is in another transitional period.

Part of the magic of looking at Barbie is how she smiles at girls from her box on the shelf. And when our little girls open up that package, they want her to be in pristine condition, with neat hair and clothes all in check.

Annie Lennox

I didn't want to be a Barbie doll. I didn't want to be a passive entertainer. It wasn't how I wanted to present myself.

Chuck Palahniuk

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

Jessica Biel

My Barbies were usually naked. Once, I took their heads off, cut their hair, drew on their short, spiky hair with some markers, then stuck the heads on Christmas lights. Every year, we'd string our tree with those Barbie heads. It looked demonic. My parents were so cool - they saw it as a form of self-expression.

Chloe Bennet

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.

Jodi Benson

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.'

The biggest beneficiary of all this is the United States. Look, a Barbie doll costs $20 but China only gets about 35 cents of that.

Bud Collins

The next time Barbie played they had towels ready to hold around her.

Sonam Kapoor

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.

Bianca Lawson

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.'

We have about 16 stand-alone stores in Japan selling the Barbie clothes that are geared towards adults and we hope to expand to 20 stores by the end of the year.

Jennifer Hewitt

Twenty is a good number, ... That way you can be creative, cut their hair off, have Barbie parties. I got them free, so I had 75.

Nicki Minaj

Now all the bums is wondering where I be's at -if you ain't a barbie it's none of your freaking beeswax!!!

Poppy Montgomery

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.

The staggering number (for Mattel) was that U.S. Barbie dipped 30 percent. It's hard to say when people decide to throw in the towel, but obviously some folks have thrown in the towel.

The staggering number (for Mattel) was that US Barbie dipped 30%.

Barbie is the tail that wags the dog. If little girls aren't captivated by Barbie anymore, I don't know what happens.

Barbie is the most fashionable girl on the planet. So, of course, she appreciates the new look Ken is sporting. But we'll have to stay tuned to see whether these two will get back together.

Richard Foreman

Barbie has a special relationship with women. It takes them back to being a little girl and fantasizing about what they're going to be in the future.

Barbie continues to be the champ of toys. Mattel has been able to spin gold out of the franchise.

Barbie continues to be the champ of toys, ... Mattel has been able to spin gold out of the franchise.

A lot of people in the investment community are very pessimistic about Barbie for the holiday season.

The wherewithal of this company is to make sure that there isn't a person on the planet that doesn't know that Barbie and Polly Pocket are coming to DVD. That hasn't been there before.

You don't want a situation where you have to prove that you had a $10,000 Barbie doll collection after it's destroyed.