My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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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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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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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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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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