Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISANDArt finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISANDThe artist as citizen is here to stay.
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 STREISANDArt is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.
BARBRA STREISANDTo have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good.
BARBRA STREISANDI arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
BARBRA STREISANDMyths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
BARBRA STREISANDI’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.
BARBRA STREISANDI still like my antique clothes.
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 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 STREISANDArt transcends politics this weekend.
BARBRA STREISANDIt is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.
BARBRA STREISANDA human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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 STREISANDWhat 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