When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
BARBRA STREISANDIf a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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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.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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I 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”.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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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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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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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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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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