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
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?
A 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.
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.
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
What 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.
I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.
Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
Life's too short. Start with Dessert!
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.