Alexandra Bracken Quotes

I am a classic Star Trek fanatic. When I was a kid, my mom and I used to go to conventions.

When I first met my girlfriend, Mercy Malick, she asked me if there was anything I should tell her that could put her off me if she found out later. So I told her that I was a total 'Star Wars' geek and had boxes of 'Star Wars' toys in storage.

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

I loved 'Star Wars'. I had the toys.

I had 'Star Wars' figures and G.I. Joes and Transformers and all the posters.

I'm walking around our apartment right now, and I see tons of action figures everywhere. There's Spider-Man stuff, old 1996 WWF figures, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Marvel stuff.

I'm an avid collector of toys. I got everything. Name it. From the Easy Bake Oven to Barbies to every TV show doll, racing cars... I've been collecting since I was a little kid.

I'm a geeky toy collector, and to have toys of your own characters is unbelievably cool.

Recently I've been collecting Star Wars figures again. When I was a kid I couldn't afford them. Now I can so I've been buying them and keeping them in their box for a later date when they'll be worth a lot of money.

G.I. Joe has a heart and an attitude that feels right and familiar to me, so they could have ray guns, and they'd still feel more like real troops than many other franchises.

I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.

I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.

I played with two lines of action figures when I was a kid: G.I. Joe and Star Wars.

Anything nerd-wise, I have probably collected it, and it's displayed in our apartment.

It's just insane because, as a longtime WWE fan, I still have all of my action figures in storage. Now to have my own, and to see my nephews play with them, to see kids tweet me pictures with them, and to see people are actually going out of their way searching all of these stores trying to find them, it's really cool and humbling.

Growing up, I didn't just watch 'The Cosby Show.' I watched 'Growing Pains' and 'Family Ties,' too.

Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

Well, when I wasn't playing with a football I used to play with 'Star Wars' figures as a kid. Hanging out with Chewbacca and Luke Skywalker is how I passed the time when I wasn't kicking a ball around.

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.

I am generally a nostalgic person and super into the pop culture that I grew up on - I've got a framed ALF poster above my bed and a Mickey Mouse poster, and I've got this big VHS collection.

I had this almost secret life of going to 'Star Wars' conventions because,' when I was younger, Star Wars' had phased into the uncool part of its life and had yet to become cool again for everybody else.

When I was a kid, I was really into the shows my older brothers were into. I got all the action figures handed down to me, but I couldn't go to the store to buy new ones because they were discontinued; they didn't exist anymore.

Whenever we were on the road when I was younger, I remember my father pointing out the trucks that had 'Mack' on them.

I place 'Star Wars' on such a pedestal, like many of my peers do, given that we all grew up with these stories.

I guess when I talk to friends and family back home they don't know anything about wrestling, but when they bring it up they bring up the things they may used to watch and love.