I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISANDI think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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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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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 to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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