It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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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.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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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 tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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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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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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