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Barbra Streisand

"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 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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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."

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"I'd like to be played as a child by Natalie Wood. I'd have some romantic scenes as Audrey Hepburn and have gritty black-and-white scenes as Patricia Neal."

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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."

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"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."

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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."

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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."

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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."

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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."

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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."

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"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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"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?"
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"I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
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"Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression."
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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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"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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"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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"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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