I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
BARBRA STREISANDThere’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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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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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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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.
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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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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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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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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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