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
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.
I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
New York critics - I hear when one of them watched A Star Is Born, he talked back to the screen.
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work ... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
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.
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
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 don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.