I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
BARBRA STREISANDI like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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I’m a work in progress.
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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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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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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 wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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