I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
BARBRA STREISANDI arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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 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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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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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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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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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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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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