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.
BARBRA STREISANDEverybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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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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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When I sing, people shut up.
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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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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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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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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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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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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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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