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
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.
You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end.
It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched A Star Is Born, he talked back to the screen.
I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable - and very, very frightening.
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.
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.