You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
BARBRA STREISANDI started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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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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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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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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