I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
BARBRA STREISANDI started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
BARBRA STREISANDI want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there.
BARBRA STREISANDSuccess to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
BARBRA STREISANDI worked in a Chinese restaurant.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
BARBRA STREISANDI just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISANDYou have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
BARBRA STREISANDYou don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
BARBRA STREISANDI love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISANDI’m a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
BARBRA STREISANDWhen I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.
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 STREISANDI’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
BARBRA STREISANDI’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 STREISANDMy biggest nightmare is I’m driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: ‘Please help me.’ And the people say: ‘Hey, you look like…’ And I’m dying while they’re wondering whether I’m Barbra Streisand.
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