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 STREISANDI hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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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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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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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’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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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 hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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