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”.
BARBRA STREISANDThe result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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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 was a personality before I became a person.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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