I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
BARBRA STREISANDThe audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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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 think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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