I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISANDOn a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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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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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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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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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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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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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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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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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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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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