I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISANDI like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
BARBRA STREISANDI knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
BARBRA STREISANDMy 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 STREISANDMost awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
BARBRA STREISANDThere is nothing more important in life than love.
BARBRA STREISANDI like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.
BARBRA STREISANDI love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
BARBRA STREISANDMen are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
BARBRA STREISANDYou have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
BARBRA STREISANDI love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
BARBRA STREISANDI hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: “I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can’t. It’s the best film I’ve seen since Citizen Kane”.
BARBRA STREISANDI also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
BARBRA STREISANDI am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.
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 wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.
BARBRA STREISANDSometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.
BARBRA STREISAND