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
I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do believe that belief and imagination manifests reality. And therefore, even though it took twenty-five years, I did find the house, eventually, and the man I could live with.
I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.
I can't cook, at all. I would not know how to make coffee. I took cooking classes, so I know how to make chocolate soufflé, but ask me if I want to make soufflé. I let somebody else make the chocolate soufflé, and I eat it. I found that, when I took cooking classes and tried to cook, I didn't want to eat it. The joy was gone. I was always filthy with the stuff, and then had to clean it up. I don't like that.
It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly.
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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.
It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.