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
It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.
It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
How can we accept a situation in which there are no longer orchestras, choruses, libraries or art classes to nourish our children? We need more support for the arts, not less -- particularly to make this rich world available to young people whose vision is choked by a stark reality. How many children, who have no other outlet in their lives for their grief, have found solace in an instrument to play or a canvas to paint on? When you take into consideration the development of the human heart, soul and imagination, don't the arts take on just as much importance as math or science?
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.