Barbie Quotes

For many young girls, [Barbie is] their first association with fashion and dressing up and changing clothes.

Barbie’s one of those fads whose popularity makes you lose all faith in the human race.

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.

In ‘Summer and Smoke,’ I was supposed to be a plain-Jane wallflower, and instead, I had all these costumes. I looked like a Barbie doll.

When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged innocent.

I always tell my mom that if she would have just bought me a Barbie when I was little, I would have gone into real estate.

If Barbie was a real person, she’d be, like, 10 feet tall in order for her legs to be proportionate to her torso.

For my first acting gig, I was a hand model for a Barbie commercial that was only going to air in Asia. And I was constantly trying to get my face in the shot.

In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn’t like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn’t like Sarah called her Caribou Barbie. People attempted to marginalize these women based on their gender.

My Barbie doll is definitely a reflection of me and my personality. My doll is so detailed, she even has my same beauty marks.

There are actors who don’t get out of their Barbie Doll avatars, but that’s not who I am.

Every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top. My mama, she told me don’t worry about your size. She says boys like a little more booty to hold at night. Yeah I won’t be no stick figure silicone Barbie doll, so if that’s what you’re into then go ahead and move along.

I still havent got over the fact that I wont be the only person seeing the film. Im used to watching home videos of when I was little, singing Barbie Girl and stuff, and nobody sees them except the family. Now, there will be loads of people going to see The Golden Compass. At least, we hope they will.

And I call Saks Fifth Ave-y home. That is where a real bad Barbie roam.

I remember trying to turn one of my Barbies into Storm, and I melted her hair off.

Half of my closet is Barbie clothes – PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.

The doll, Dallas. You know, Barbie doll. Jeez, didn’t you ever have dollies?” “Dolls are like small dead people. I have enough dead people, thanks.

Most little children’s obsessions are robots and Barbie dolls. My obsession as a kid was the Versace house. I used to save up my pocket money to buy Versus shirts. I was that obsessed!

Maybe instead of buying myself another Barbie, I could donate that to the Kmart Wishing Tree.

Growing up, my favorite movie was ‘The Lion King.’ I used to watch it every day and create these extravagant stories with my Barbies and stuffed animals. My dad says I would say the entire movie out loud, and it’s still the one VHS that I have.

You know I won’t be no stick-figure, silicone Barbie doll

I enjoy getting dressed as a Barbie doll.

Miami is just really fun whenever I go there. It’s like this post-apocalyptic Barbie world: everything is pink, and there’re palm trees everywhere. But then there are also all these people in crazy sunglasses, warehouses with sick parties where all the girls are covered in spikes and black leather. It’s a very weird place.

He liked women with little butts and big tits? Someone had played with one too many barbie dolls as a kid.

I learned to hide aspects of my personality. Playing with girls was fine, for example, but playing with their Barbies was something I could do only behind closed doors.

Emily Procter getting pregnant changed the show for me. I got so much more involved, which was so much fun! Now I feel like an action figure Barbie.

I had some Barbies, but they were few and far between the mud fights.

It’s hard being a Barbie doll all the time.

I think they should have a Barbie with a buzz cut.

If there were mistakes, there were mistakes. But a man has to have a line of work, no?

I’m not a Barbie doll, I’m just a multidimensional human being who likes to make things.

I am not interested in being a Barbie doll and turning myself into a sausage for the next 20 years. I want to follow actresses like Helen Mirren and Judi Dench who have lines on their faces and aren’t afraid of playing their age.

I thought I could do Barbie’s hair and makeup better than the factory did. So I would get out my markers and scissors and play ‘beauty salon’ with them. Then I would be devastated because I ruined them!

I was the kid growing up who would play with G.I. Joes in a pink dress and then run off to play with my Barbies. It doesn’t mean that I’m less girly, it just means that I have this other side of me. It’s kinda cool to be a little bit of both, I think.

Silena appeared out of the woods, her sword drawn. Her Aphrodite armour was pink and red, colour coordinated to match her clothes and makeup. She looked like Guerilla Warfare Barbie.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

I grew up in the Alps and France, and Barbie was my first exposure to the American woman. For me she was blonde, she was free and she was fun.

I had everything you could collect. I had these Spice Girls postcards. I also had the stickers and Barbie girls. I had all five of them. I was a real fangirl. They were actually preaching some cool stuff, the thing about girl power and sticking together with your best girlfriends.

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

Where is Barbie?” The female shifter snickered and choked it off. “Is there a stripper pole?

I used to be obsessed with Pearl Jam, but I love having pink hair and kind of looking like a Barbie.

Yeah my money’s so tall that my Barbie’s gotta climb it

Barbie always represented the fact that a woman has choices.

I loved make-believe. I was the child in the cupboard playing with my Barbies.

I wanted to be Barbie.

I wasn’t the kid who lined up her toys, although when it came to Barbies and that little traveling wardrobe with the drawers and the little shoes, my stuff was always on hangers and the shoes were always in pairs. Things had their places.

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

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

Barbie is just a doll.

I now have 10-year-olds asking me about how to become successful, how to become a business owner, which is crazy – at 10 I was trying to figure out which Barbie I wanted.

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.

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.

I don’t like being under someone elses thumb. I’m very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement… trying to do what they want instead of being someone else’s Barbie doll.

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

‘America’s Next Top Model’ is not a bunch of Barbies – it’s a lot of girls that are atypically beautiful.

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.

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the ‘Barbie doll’ roles.

I used to butcher my Barbies. I would draw hearts on their cheeks. I would give them haircuts and I would keep going because it would be uneven and they would be left bald

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.

…although I had to admit a certain affection for the Mattel booth advertising Urban Survival Barbie, now with her own Machete and blood testing unit.

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.’

If I’m feeling like a Barbie girl, I’m gonna throw that blonde wig on. It’s just the mood.

There are only two things you can do when you’re dressed like Barbie Does Bondage; you can be embarrassed or you can be aggressive. Guess what my choice was.

I was collecting Barbies. I know… embarrassing. I sold them all on eBay, and traded them for vintage dishes. So I’ve collected two things.

I was obsessed with X-Men as a kid, and I would have to go and play every last one of them. My sister was obsessed with Barbies. So we would create these X-Men-Barbie combos and perform weird musicals where they interacted with each other.

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.

I was big time into Barbie. I also had Wonder Woman Underoos that I really liked. I actually wore them as an outfit to school. As I said, I was a strange child.

I played with Barbies but I used to decapitate them. I used to take their heads off then dye their hair and do weird things.

I grew up playing with dinosaurs instead of Barbie dolls.

I was, like, a total cliched ’80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

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.

I’m definitely attracted to other Australians; I have a laid-back attitude to life that I feel is very Australian; I love a good barbie.

You might be a redneck if your daughter’s Barbie’s Dream House has a clothesline in the front yard.

You know you’ve made it when you can dye your hair blue.

Look at you! You look like Rangeman Barbie. You got a gun and everything. -Lula

When the other girls had given up their Barbies, I was still playing with mine in secret.

I would always change my Barbies. I’d cut their hair, paint on tattoos, and create new clothes for them. I would invent elaborate stories: fights, dramas, successes. I would try out my ideas on them. And sometimes they would sing!

She’s like a Barbie, then she wants to be a superhero, or coming out of a spaceship and everything’s pink. She makes a certain move that’s ghetto hood mixed with a little robot so its like I’m evolving Nicki Minaj and developing her style. She’s fearless, and I love her.

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.

I definitely had dolls when I was a kid. I don’t remember being very thorough with them and making sure they got fed in my make-believe world. A lot of Barbie haircuts were given, though. I had a Tamagotchi as well, but I think that thing died really quick. They were hard to do!

Wait, so @ToysRUs pulled all of the Breaking Bad figures from their shelves and still sells Barbie? Hmmmm…I wonder what is more damaging?

Men are self-confident because they grow up identifying with super-heroes. Women have bad self-images because they grow up identifying with Barbie.

I’m a big Aqua fan. “Barbie Girl” was a big deal growing up.

I was like a total cliched ’80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe’s cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.

Barbie is my fashion icon. People think I’m Paris Barbie – and it’s a compliment.

I was big time into Barbie.

I thought the Barbie doll would always be successful.

I’ll never be like a Barbie girl, that’s for sure.

I think Barbie and I are very similar in many respects. That’s why she made such a great muse for the summer Moschino collection.

As long as I was well fed, I was a very, very nice child. I just used my imagination and played with Barbies. I was pretty easy.

It doesn’t feel like work. Yes, I have days that are difficult, but I’m sitting in a chair making up stories. It’s what I did for fun as a kid, whether with Barbies or stuffed animals.

Authenticity has never been Barbie’s strong suit.

You know you’ve made it when you’ve been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with Barbie dolls – it’s a bit scary, actually.

Those that think my clothes are androgynous also still believe that women should look like Barbie dolls. That’s precisely the problem, the deep-rooted assumptions about what is feminine.

If I think of all those homosexuals in Germany today, I think I’d hand my German passport back, if I had one.

Mattel stepped up and changed the face of Barbie. Barbie looks a lot different than she did decades ago. Or even three weeks ago.

We’re not freaks, Tally. We’re normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we’re not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It’s not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it’s about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

I’m just a Ragetty Anne in a Barbie Doll World

Pulling heads off Barbies, sticking them on the TV antenna and ruining the reception. But thats how witch babies are.

Both my husband and I wanted a boy. I wasn’t sure what I’d do with a daughter. What if she asked for a Barbie? I would have been like, ‘Honey, we don’t support Barbie because she isn’t an accurate depiction of a woman’s body.’

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.

What makes you different, makes you dangerous.

Sometimes I’ll post goofy photos of myself on Instagram without make-up or making silly faces. I don’t always look like a little Barbie doll.

Being Australian is a lot more than saying ‘g’day mate’ and ‘throw a shrimp on the Barbie.’

It was my first scene. My first day. We could have started with me drinking a beer, something a little less than having Barbies touching each other. But they started with that.

McDonald’s, Barbie – they’re all icons, recognizable from London to Timbuktu.

I had a lot of Barbies growing up, and a lot of porcelain dolls, but I was scared of them. I was so scared of them, I would try to turn their head away and would make my mom take them out of my room.

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.

What hasn’t Barbie been? I don’t think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.

Kids don’t plan to play. They don’t go: ‘Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It’s gonna be a three-act.’

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected…but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction.

The first design I created was a circular skirt for my Barbie when I was 7.

Ella was vapid and worthless at least nine-tenths of the time, but when she got really mad, her face became sharp and purposeful. Almost vicious. Like if Barbie were suddenly possessed by Atilla the Hun.

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.

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.