I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
BARBRA STREISANDHow could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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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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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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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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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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