I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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A 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.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.
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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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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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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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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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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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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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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’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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