black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

Barbra Streisand

I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
BARBRA STREISAND

Care Name Spells
In 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 STREISAND

People Song Writing
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
BARBRA STREISAND

Courage Fear Frightened
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brooklyn Echoes Great Sound
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.
BARBRA STREISAND

Appreciate Done Years
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND

Essential Essentially Music
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISAND

Limit My Own Want
One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISAND

Beautiful Fanny Girl Thinking
There’s a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
BARBRA STREISAND

Children Love Matter Mature
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 STREISAND

Gorgeous Host Person Stranger
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don’t even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it’s like awards don’t mean anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Awards Mean Together
The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country’s immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
BARBRA STREISAND

Country Perfect Years
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
BARBRA STREISAND

Humanity Interesting Trust Yourself
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?
BARBRA STREISAND

Heritage Noses Talent
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
BARBRA STREISAND

Life Live Moments
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
BARBRA STREISAND

Create Ego Healthy True
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
BARBRA STREISAND

Brooklyn Girl Thinking
I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so sick.
BARBRA STREISAND

Culture Needs Sick
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
BARBRA STREISAND

Born Country Stars
My mother never really thought I could become anything.
BARBRA STREISAND

Anything Become Mother
What 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 STREISAND

Crazy Strength Two
When I sing, people shut up.
BARBRA STREISAND

Explanation People Shut Up
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
BARBRA STREISAND

Art Generation Signature
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.
BARBRA STREISAND

Lips Months Three
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
BARBRA STREISAND

Furniture Growing Up
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
BARBRA STREISAND

Silly Successful Tradition
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND

Actress Get Singer Work

I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Barbra Streisand Quotes