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.
BARBRA STREISANDI prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
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It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
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I’m a work in progress.
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Art transcends politics this weekend.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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My mother never really thought I could become anything.
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It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
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Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.
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I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
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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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I just don’t like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn’t need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
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Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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