Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
BARBRA STREISANDI’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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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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 must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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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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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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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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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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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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