New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
BARBRA STREISANDNew York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
BARBRA STREISANDDoubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
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 STREISANDWhen I sing, people shut up.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISANDHow could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?… Not only is he poisoning our air and water – he’s poisoning our political system as well.
BARBRA STREISANDA large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
BARBRA STREISANDI never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISANDOh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
BARBRA STREISANDAround people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISANDI don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISANDIn the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.
BARBRA STREISANDWhy does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married?
BARBRA STREISANDI was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISAND