What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
BARBRA STREISANDI knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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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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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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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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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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