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 STREISANDSuccess to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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