I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISANDArt is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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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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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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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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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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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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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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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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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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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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