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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.

Barbra Streisand

I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting Actresses Class
It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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Agree Dating Same Tables
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Father Honor School
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brooklyn Girl Thinking
What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Drama Honesty Thinking
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Mother Teacher
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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Feet Hurt Style
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Audience Barometer Truth
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND

Given Self Self Esteem
We elected a President, not a Pope.
BARBRA STREISAND

Elected Pope President
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Felt Interesting Knows
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Performing Process
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Progression Time Waste Wasting
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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
BARBRA STREISAND

Everyone Fascinate Love Mother Thinking

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.

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