I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
BARBRA STREISANDI also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
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Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
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I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
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Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
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I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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Love comes from the most unexpected places.
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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.
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As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
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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.
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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.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
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I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.
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Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
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We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
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Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
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I’ve been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
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