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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Barbra Streisand

I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Legends Progress Work
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Home People Sick
It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
BARBRA STREISAND

Dream Every Men Woman
I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISAND

Given Self Self Esteem
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Acting Actresses Class
I need instant gratification.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gratification Instant Need
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actresses Began Hope Jobs
I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
BARBRA STREISAND

Color Falling House Love
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
BARBRA STREISAND

Heritage Noses Talent
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Bulls Loss Red
What reaches an audience is honesty. If you’re saying something truthful that’s supposed to be a funny line, it’s going to be funny. And if it’s supposed to be a serious line, it’s going to be serious. But, I don’t think there’s a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it’s based in the truth.
BARBRA STREISAND

Drama Honesty Thinking
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
BARBRA STREISAND

Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
BARBRA STREISAND

Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
BARBRA STREISAND

Believe Reality Truth
I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Name Spells
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
BARBRA STREISAND

Celebrate Law Men School
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
BARBRA STREISAND

Congratulations Ice Cream Success
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
BARBRA STREISAND

Design Furniture Special
I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Lunch Nice
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Perfect Years
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lips Months Three
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
BARBRA STREISAND

Light Name Young
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Creative Stars Thinking
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND

Essential Essentially Music
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
BARBRA STREISAND

Audience Care Name Product
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
BARBRA STREISAND

Judging Lag Umpires
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND

Doing Right Fame

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