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
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
no one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family ...
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you know. I was great, it relieved all my tensions. And I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. Other acts up and down the Strip heard about what I was doing - Little Anthony and the Imperials, people like that - and started sending me the best dope in the world. I never ran out.
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm 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.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
Life's too short. Start with Dessert!
What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.