Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISANDIt takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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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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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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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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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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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