I 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”.
BARBRA STREISANDMy nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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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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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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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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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 worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you’ve felt, that you have observed.
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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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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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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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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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