Barbra Streisand Quotes
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There is nothing more important in life than love.
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I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
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I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
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I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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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'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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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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I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
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I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
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A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.
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It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.