I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.
BARBRA STREISANDYou have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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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 don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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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 must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn’t like me at all.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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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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He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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I don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
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The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
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