Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand
Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisandis an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. Her career spanning six decades, she has become an icon in multiple fields of entertainment, and has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards, The Presidential Medal Of Freedom and nine Golden...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPop Singer
Date of Birth24 April 1942
CityNew York City, NY
CountryUnited States of America
Barbra Streisand quotes about
. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.
I'm very grateful to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who have been so supportive of me throughout my career.
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched A Star Is Born, he talked back to the screen.
Jim, I'm delighted to be here as your wife. I'm very proud of you.
I couldn't even call her. I was heartsick.
The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.
Normally, I would not dignify vicious, mean-spirited mythology masquerading as biography.
Just the sadness of, we're there, but don't want to have those people in harm's way, and yet we do have to support (the troops). It's kind of painful, and I had always imagined just seeing footage of the troops, it's like history repeating itself ? here we are again. That was the meaning to me.
I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable - and very, very frightening.
I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.
A human being is only interesting if hes 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.
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.