To 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.
BARBRA STREISANDStay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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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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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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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 was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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