I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISANDSometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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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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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When I sing, people shut up.
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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 don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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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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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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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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