I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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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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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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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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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I’m a work in progress.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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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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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’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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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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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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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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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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