Top 100 Barbra Streisand Quotes
#1. 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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#2. I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.
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#4. Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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#6. 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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#8. It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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#9. My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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#10. 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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#11. Progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
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#12. It is true, even people with painful childhoods ... grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.
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#13. Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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#14. A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.
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#16. When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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#17. They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
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#18. I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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#19. I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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#21. Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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#22. 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.
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#23. 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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#24. I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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#25. How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people? ... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.
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#26. 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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#27. 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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#28. I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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#29. 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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#30. I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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#31. When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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#32. I won't leave forks in the dish rack overnight because I believe that the tines attract demonic energy.
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#33. You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
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#34. 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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#35. I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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#38. Art does not exist only to entertain
but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.
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#39. 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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#40. I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.
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#41. I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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#42. And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
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#44. Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
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#45. I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.
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#47. 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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#48. I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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#49. I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. It's so sick.
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#50. 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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#51. I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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#52. Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
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#53. 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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#54. Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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#55. I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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#56. I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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#58. I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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#59. 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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#60. What 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.
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#61. 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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#62. I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
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#63. 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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#64. 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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#66. I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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#67. I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
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#68. There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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#69. It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.
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#70. 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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#71. On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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#72. 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.
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#73. I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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#74. Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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#76. what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night
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#77. I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
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#78. Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
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#79. Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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#80. Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
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#81. How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not
necessary to safeguard us from discrimination
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#83. No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family ...
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#84. Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
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#85. 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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#86. As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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#87. The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
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#89. 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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#90. I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know ...
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#91. We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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#92. Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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#93. 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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#94. 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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#95. My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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#99. I also have intense relationships with furniture ... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
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