Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
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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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I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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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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A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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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 only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.
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