I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
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I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn’t be entitled to our political opinions.
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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 only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
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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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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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