I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
BARBRA STREISANDIt always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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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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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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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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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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.
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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 hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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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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