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'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
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?
I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?
I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.
It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
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.
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.
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.