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 STREISANDEighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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’m a work in progress.
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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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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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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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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 can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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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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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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