Barbra Streisand Quotes

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

Barbra Streisand

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• I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.

  

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• A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.

  

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• Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.

  

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• When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.

  

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• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

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• I worked on the line, I've been an executive chef, I've worked for the Mets, I've worked for various steakhouses, vegetarian restaurants, a lot of Middle Eastern stuff. I've worked my fair share of a lot of different things. I've worked at festivals and street fairs, you know? I've been through it all.

  

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• I've always wanted to do a period piece.

  

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• I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

  

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• A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'

  

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• Keep your energy levels high by adding bananas and egg whites to your diet.

  

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• I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.

  

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• I hate camping, but I love summer camp.

  

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• It's a truism to say that my state, Texas, isn't a red state: It's a nonvoting state.

  

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• Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

  

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• Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.

  

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• I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just try to get into the character, into his or her head. Try to make it as funny, as scary or as wild as I can so that I really like it.

  

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• Actors, we like stories, we like storytelling, we love being a part of the story, and if you give us a story that's interesting then we'll want to do it.

  

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• I'm not afraid to be lonely at the top.

  

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• And as for Pleasure, there is little in this World that is true and sincere, besides the Pleasure of doing our Duty, and of doing good.

  

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• It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Like
  • Audience
  • Wanted