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?
BARBRA STREISANDSometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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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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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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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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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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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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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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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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