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.
BARBRA STREISANDI hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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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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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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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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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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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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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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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’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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I’m a work in progress.
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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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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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