I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
BARBRA STREISANDI started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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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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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I 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.
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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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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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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 only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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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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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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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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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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