My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISANDI do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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I still like my antique clothes.
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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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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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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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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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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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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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