You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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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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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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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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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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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 don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, “Go on, go on – you can do it!
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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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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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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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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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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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