Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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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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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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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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I never sing in the shower either.
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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?
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.