It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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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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.
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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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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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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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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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