As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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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’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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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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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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