Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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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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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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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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Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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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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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
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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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