My Name Is Barbra
A source page for quotes linked to Barbra Streisand.
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“Fame is a hollow trophy. No matter who you are, you can only eat one pastrami sandwich at a time.”
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“what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night”
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“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?”
“We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.”
“A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.”
“I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.”
“Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.”
“No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.”
“progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.”
“Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.”
“It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.”
“I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.”
“I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.”
“Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.”
“I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.”
“I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.”
“It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.”
“New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.”
“I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.”
“You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.”