I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
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My biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
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It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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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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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.
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In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
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I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
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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 think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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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’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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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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