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 STREISANDNew York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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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’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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