It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
BARBRA STREISANDOne thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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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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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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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’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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