I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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”.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I was a personality before I became a person.
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. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there’s always a positive to a negative.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
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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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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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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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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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