Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
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.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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We elected a President, not a Pope.
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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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I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
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They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
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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 don’t like the word ‘superstar’. It has ridiculous implications. These words – star, stupor, superstar, stupid star – they’re misleading. It’s a myth.
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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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Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
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Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud.
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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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Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
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He (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?
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I’m a work in progress.
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When I sing, people shut up.
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I don’t enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don’t enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
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I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
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I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: ‘I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.’
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To 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.
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I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
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I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
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