A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISANDI think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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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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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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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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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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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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