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.’
BARBRA STREISANDHe (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?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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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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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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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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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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 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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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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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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