Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISANDJust 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I still like my antique clothes.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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 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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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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