One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISANDI only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I’ve always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn’t overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn’t ambitious.
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The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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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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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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