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?
BARBRA STREISANDNew York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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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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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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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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 can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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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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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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