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.
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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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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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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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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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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I need instant gratification.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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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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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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