Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
BARBRA STREISANDI only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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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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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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