I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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 read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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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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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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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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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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