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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.’

Barbra Streisand

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 STREISAND

Feet Hurt Style
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
BARBRA STREISAND

Growing Interesting People Up
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Anything Become Mother
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND

Head Men World
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Ambitious Doing Kind Nothing
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?
BARBRA STREISAND

Idols Play Thinking
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
BARBRA STREISAND

Being Believe Unique Yourself
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
BARBRA STREISAND

History Hollywood Name
I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
BARBRA STREISAND

Biographies Errors Someday
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Mean Thank You Thanksgiving
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Home People Sick
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actress Get Singer Work
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Mother Should
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND

Air Brooklyn Hot Raise
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
BARBRA STREISAND

Law Racism Time

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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