Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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.
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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.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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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.
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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.
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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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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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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.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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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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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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.
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Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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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.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.