It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
BARBRA STREISANDWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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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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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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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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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.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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