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.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen 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.
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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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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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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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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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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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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 am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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