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.
BARBRA STREISANDBeing a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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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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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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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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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
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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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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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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