Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
BARBRA STREISANDDoubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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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’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.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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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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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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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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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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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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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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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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I need instant gratification.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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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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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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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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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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