I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISANDNo one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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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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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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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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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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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.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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I need instant gratification.
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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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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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