I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISANDI never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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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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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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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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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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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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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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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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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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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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