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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.

Barbra Streisand

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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Idols Play Thinking
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Chinese Restaurant Work
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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Acting Actresses Class
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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Awards Discouraging Giving
I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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Ideas Song Thinking
I was a personality before I became a person.
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Personality Persons Unattractive
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.
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Audience Care Name Product
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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Lips Months Three
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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Play Wish Writing
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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Couple Life Motivation
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Given Self Self Esteem
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Anything Become Mother
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Design Furniture Special
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Doing Right Fame
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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Gay Ideas White
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Art Generation Signature

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.

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