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 STREISANDPart of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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’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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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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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.
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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 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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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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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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