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 STREISANDTo 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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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’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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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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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 was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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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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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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