I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISANDMy nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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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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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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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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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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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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