I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISANDI was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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.
BARBRA STREISANDWhy am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISANDArt is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISANDHe (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
BARBRA STREISANDSometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
BARBRA STREISANDprogress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISANDI think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISANDMoviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
BARBRA STREISANDThere’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
BARBRA STREISANDTo have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
BARBRA STREISANDIt always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That’s not what I’m about.
BARBRA STREISANDMy mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND