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.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
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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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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 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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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
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I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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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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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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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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I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
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