I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISANDBeing a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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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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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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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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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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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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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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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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When I sing, people shut up.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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