I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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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 don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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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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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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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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