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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

Barbra Streisand

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Life Live Moments
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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Awards Mean Together
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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Crazy Strength Two
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Mines Mouths Stars
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
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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Gay Mother Son
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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Country Perfect Years
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.
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Ridiculous Stars Stupid
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Audience Care Name Product
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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People Stars Talent
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”.
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Citizens Hate Tell Wish
I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Color Falling House Love
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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Couple Life Motivation
I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Art Name Thinking
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Legends Progress Work
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Clothes Country Teenager
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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Interesting Over Trust You
I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Creative Process Stardom Weird Work
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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Judging Lag Umpires
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Agree Dating Same Tables
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Felt Interesting Knows
To 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.
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Believe Mean Strength
Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Unexpected Unexpected Places
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Elastic Simple Thing Waist
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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History Hollywood Name

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