Barbra Streisand Quotes
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I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
I 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.
Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
I also have intense relationships with furniture ... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
It is true, even people with painful childhoods ... grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.
Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.
When 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.
You 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?
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.
I'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.
One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl (1968), I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Art does not exist only to entertain
but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.
but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.
I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. It's so sick.
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.
The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.
If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.