It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
BARBRA STREISANDThe dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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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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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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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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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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