I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
BARBRA STREISANDI want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I need instant gratification.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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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 love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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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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I’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.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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