I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
BARBRA STREISANDWhat 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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 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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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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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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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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