I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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 just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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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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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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I’m a work in progress.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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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.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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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 worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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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’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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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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