Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
BARBRA STREISANDI can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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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.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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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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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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