Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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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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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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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 like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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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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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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