I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
-
-
You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
BARBRA STREISAND -
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
BARBRA STREISAND -
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for truth.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISAND -
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 -
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
BARBRA STREISAND -
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I never sing in the shower either.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
BARBRA STREISAND -
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