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.
BARBRA STREISANDMy mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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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 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.
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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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I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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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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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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