I never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISANDI worked in a Chinese restaurant.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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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 got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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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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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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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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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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