My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m a work in progress.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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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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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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I need instant gratification.
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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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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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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 prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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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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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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