A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
BARBRA STREISANDI never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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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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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 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’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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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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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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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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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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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 love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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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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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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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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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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