One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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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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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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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 don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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