I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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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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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.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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 knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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