Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISANDI love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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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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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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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. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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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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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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I need instant gratification.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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