I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISANDPerforming, for me, has always been a very inner process.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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 told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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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.
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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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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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