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"After a fellow gets famous it doesn't take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school."

"Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good."

"I felt no pressure that my grandfather was famous and my uncle was famous."

"I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave."
Explore more quotes by Barbra Streisand

"I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt."

"I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven."

"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."

"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."

"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?"

"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work."

"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.'"

"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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