Art transcends politics this weekend.
BARBRA STREISANDI arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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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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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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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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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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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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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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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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