I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISANDOne thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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 go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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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 just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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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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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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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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I need instant gratification.
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