I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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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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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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