One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISANDI also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
-
-
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
BARBRA STREISAND -
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.
BARBRA STREISAND -
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISAND -
No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I was a personality before I became a person.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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?
BARBRA STREISAND -
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.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISAND -
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
BARBRA STREISAND -
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