I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
BARBRA STREISANDI was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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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.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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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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When I sing, people shut up.
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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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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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