Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
BARBRA STREISANDI’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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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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’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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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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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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I’m a work in progress.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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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 hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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