I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISANDI hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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.
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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.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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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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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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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.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I’m a work in progress.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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