I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISANDYou 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?
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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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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