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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

Barbra Streisand

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Lunch Nice
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
BARBRA STREISAND

Badass Passion Women Work
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND

Performing Process
I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Kind Taught
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creeps Saws Wanted
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
BARBRA STREISAND

Chinese Restaurant Work
I’m a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Done Process Progress Work
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
BARBRA STREISAND

Authenticity People Stay True Yourself
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
BARBRA STREISAND

Blue School Years
I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Everything Know Learn Sure Want
I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Name Spells
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Cold Dark Heat Light Place
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
BARBRA STREISAND

Father Girl Good Kid Neighbourhood Stood
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
BARBRA STREISAND

Courage Fear Frightened
I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lips Months Three

I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.

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