Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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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 remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I still like my antique clothes.
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When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
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I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
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I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
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I'm a work in progress.
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I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
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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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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
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Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.