You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
BARBRA STREISANDWhat does it mean when people applaud? Should I give ’em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause – that I can respond to.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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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 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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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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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’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
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Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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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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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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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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Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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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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