I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
BARBRA STREISANDTo have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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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 was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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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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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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I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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