My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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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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A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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 want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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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 can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
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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’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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Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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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 don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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