"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 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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"It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman."

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"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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"Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss."

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

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

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"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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"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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"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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"I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't."

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"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe."

David Friedman, American Actor

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"I spent many years laughing at Harry Secombe's singing until somebody told me that it wasn't a joke."

Spike Milligan, Irish Comedian

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"I really liked the Mariachi singing in Westerns."

Harry Dean Stanton, American Actor

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"Speech lessons probably did more for my singing voice - they teach you breathing, resonance."

Harry Dean Stanton, American Actor

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"Singing is a form of admitting that I'm alive."

Alfredo Kraus, Spanish Musician

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"If you are speaking about my own songs, I would think so because we were talking about that particular era and I was singing one of my songs that I recorded 50 years ago."

Ruth Brown, American Musician

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"I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years."

Elaine Paige, English Musician

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"I was a drummer, and I did a little singing too."

Lou Gramm, American Musician

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"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to."

Lindsay Lohan, American Actress

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