I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISANDI knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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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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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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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’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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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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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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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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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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