I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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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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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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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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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 don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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