When I sing, people shut up.
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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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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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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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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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.’
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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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