My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen I sing, people shut up.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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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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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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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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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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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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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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