Jennifer Aniston says, 'People laugh at me'

The actress channels Barbra Streisand's iconic poses from "Funny Girl" and "What's Up, Doc?" for the September issue of Harper's Bazaar.

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Jennifer Aniston admits she's often the butt of jokes.

"People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't," the 41-year-old actress tells the September issue of Harper's Bazaar, in which she channels 68-year-old Barbra Streisand's iconic poses from "Funny Girl" and "What's Up, Doc?"

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Continues Aniston, "But I can pretty much find humor in anything. That is a necessary part of life. I don't want to say laughter is healing, because it sounds corny, but it's a release.”

Aniston compares herself to Streisand.

"[Barbra and I] are people who have been put in the spotlight, for better or for worse, and you just keep riding, and you keep overcoming," she says.

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"Barbra inspires me because there isn't anything she hasn't done that she wanted to do, especially as a female in the time when her generation was prime. She's a true renais­sance woman... I had a long conversation with Barbra about directing because I directed a short a couple years ago, and if I don't do it again soon, I'm going to burst out of my skin. And we also love interior design."

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"You don't have to stop at one thing. You can do it all if you want to," Aniston goes on.