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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.

Barbra Streisand

I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Legends Progress Work
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
BARBRA STREISAND

Benches Dog Husband
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Judging Lag Umpires
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Progress Wings Years
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 STREISAND

Play Wish Writing
I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Name Spells
If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
BARBRA STREISAND

Impossible Men Right
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Bulls Loss Red
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
BARBRA STREISAND

Parent School Son
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
BARBRA STREISAND

Artist Citizen Stay
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creeps Saws Wanted
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
BARBRA STREISAND

Choices Health Winning
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Kind Taught
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Myself Talking Work
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
BARBRA STREISAND

Balance Doubt Two

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