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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Barbra Streisand

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Drama Honesty Thinking
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Felt Interesting Knows
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Appreciate Done Years
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Agree Dating Same Tables
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Law Racism Time
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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Judging Lag Umpires
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Children Kind Taught
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Different People Weird
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Mines Mouths Stars
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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Actresses Mother Should
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Interesting Over Trust You

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