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 STREISANDI was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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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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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I’m a work in progress.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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I need instant gratification.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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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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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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