My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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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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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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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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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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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’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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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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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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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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