Barbra Streisand Quotes

• I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

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• 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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• I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

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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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• Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.

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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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• A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

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• You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

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• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

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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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• 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’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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Barbra Streisand (52)

Birth:	24th April, 1942
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actress

About

Barbra Joan Streisand is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer, and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who has won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award. In 1962, after several appearances on PM East/PM West, Streisand first appeared on Broadway, in the small but star making role of Miss Marmelstein in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, won two Grammy Awards in 1963. Streisand returned to Broadway in 1964 with an acclaimed performance as entertainer Fanny Brice in Funny Girl at the Winter Garden Theatre. In 1966, she repeated her success with Funny Girl in London's West End at the Prince of Wales Theatre. From 1965 to 1967 she appeared in her first four solo television specials.

 

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