We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.

It's so important for children to be able to see themselves represented in the toys they play with.

I don't pick up toys. I crush them.

I've been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

It attracts all types. But I definitely call the comedy world the land of misfit toys. Looking around the room at my friends, that's what I see.

I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.

When I first envisioned 'Funny Games' in the mid-1990s, it was my intention to have an American audience watch the movie. It is a reaction to a certain American cinema, its violence, its naivety, the way American cinema toys with human beings. In many American films, violence is made consumable.

I told my wife, 'One woman, lots of toys!'

I was always taking garbage from around the house and making my own toys. I wasn't given a Wii or an Xbox or anything.

About tidying up a toy box, you should let your kids experience the selection process by touching all of their toys. It's also important how they throw away their toys. They can earn a stronger sense of valuing things when they throw things away with respect and appreciation.

My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.

We're just into toys, whether it's motorcycles or race cars or computers. I've got the Palm Pilot right here with me, I've got the world's smallest phone. Maybe it's just because I'm still a big little kid and I just love toys, you know?

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Puritanical attempts to cure society by taking toys away from children are hypocritical and futile.

In Japanese culture, there is a belief that God is everywhere - in mountains, trees, rocks, even in our sympathy for robots or Hello Kitty toys.

Don't take your toys inside just because it's raining.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

War toys are not just noise and games that little boys play.

Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in price.