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 STREISANDWhy is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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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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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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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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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 hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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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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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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