If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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To 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.
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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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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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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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You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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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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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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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’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 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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I still like my antique clothes.
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New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
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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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Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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