Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
BARBRA STREISANDPerforming, for me, has always been a very inner process.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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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.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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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 remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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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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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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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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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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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