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 was a personality before I became a person.
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
I 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".
What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.
progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.
I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't.
The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.