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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

There is nothing more important in life than love.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

I also have intense relationships with furniture ... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

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.

I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)

I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.

I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

It is true, even people with painful childhoods ... grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

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.

Life's too short. Start with Dessert!

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, Go on, go on - you can do it!

I'm a work in progress.

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.

Love comes from the most unexpected places.

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

When I sing, people shut up.

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.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl (1968), I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

Art does not exist only to entertain
but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. It's so sick.

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 don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

I'd rather not talk about money. It's kind of gross.

I go by instinct - i don't worry about experience.

what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

I still like my antique clothes.

I never sing in the shower either.

You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

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.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know ...

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

You've got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family ...

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not
necessary to safeguard us from discrimination

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

I won't leave forks in the dish rack overnight because I believe that the tines attract demonic energy.