A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
BARBRA STREISANDA large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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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 still like my antique clothes.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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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 don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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