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 worked in a Chinese restaurant.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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