I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
BARBRA STREISANDA human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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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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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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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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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I 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.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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