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.
BARBRA STREISANDI was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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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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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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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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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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One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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