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?
BARBRA STREISANDIt always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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I’m a work in progress.
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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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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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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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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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I still like my antique clothes.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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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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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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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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When I sing, people shut up.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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