There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
Barbra Streisand
I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
There is nothing more important in life than love.
Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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.
I need instant gratification.
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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?
I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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.
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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.
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
