Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
BARBRA STREISANDI’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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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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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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