I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
BARBRA STREISANDDoubt 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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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’m a work in progress.
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What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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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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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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 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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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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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’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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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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