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.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.’
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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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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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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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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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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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?
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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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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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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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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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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