I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISANDTo have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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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 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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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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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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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.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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