I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISANDYou know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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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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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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I’m a work in progress.
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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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. . . 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 was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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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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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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