I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
BARBRA STREISANDJust like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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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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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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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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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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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?
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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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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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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 just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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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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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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