The audience is the barometer of the truth.
BARBRA STREISANDA large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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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’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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I’m a work in progress.
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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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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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