I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISANDWhat 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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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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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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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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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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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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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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