Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISANDI think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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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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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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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.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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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 still like my antique clothes.
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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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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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I’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.
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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 was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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I need instant gratification.
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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