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.
BARBRA STREISANDA 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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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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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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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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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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