We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISANDIf I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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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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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 can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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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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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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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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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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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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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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