One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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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.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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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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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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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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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.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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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