The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
BARBRA STREISANDThe audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags – they’re gonna cough.
BARBRA STREISANDYou know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
BARBRA STREISANDSometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
BARBRA STREISANDIt’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
BARBRA STREISANDWe cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
BARBRA STREISANDI started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
BARBRA STREISANDI was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.
BARBRA STREISANDAnd remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
BARBRA STREISANDI 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.
BARBRA STREISANDBeing a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISANDPart of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.
BARBRA STREISANDI still like my antique clothes.
BARBRA STREISANDWhat is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
BARBRA STREISANDA human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISANDArt finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISAND