Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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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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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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 just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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