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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.

Barbra Streisand

I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Legends Progress Work
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
BARBRA STREISAND

Audience Care Name Product
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Impossible Men Right
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
BARBRA STREISAND

Light Name Young
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
BARBRA STREISAND

Celebrate Law Men School
You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
BARBRA STREISAND

Different Jobs Men
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
BARBRA STREISAND

Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Kind Taught
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting My Own School
Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
BARBRA STREISAND

Earth Humans Love
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting Actresses Class
It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
BARBRA STREISAND

Artist Speaking Up Voice
I still like my antique clothes.
BARBRA STREISAND

Antiques Clothes Stills
I need instant gratification.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gratification Instant Need
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
BARBRA STREISAND

Angel Heaven Review

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