I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
BARBRA STREISANDI’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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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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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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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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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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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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