I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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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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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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I’m a work in progress.
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The artist as citizen is here to stay.
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I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
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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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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 love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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