I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISANDI am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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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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I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.
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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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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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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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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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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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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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