I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISANDI worked in a Chinese restaurant.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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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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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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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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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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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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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.
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