I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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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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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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