A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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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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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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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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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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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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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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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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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 just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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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 was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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