A biography for Barbra Streisandhasn’t been written yet.
“There is nothing more important in life than love.”
“I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.”
“On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.”
“Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?”
“I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.”
“I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.”
“When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.”
“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.”
“I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.”
“The audience is the barometer of the truth.”
“Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.”
“It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.”
“I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.”
“The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.”
“I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.”
“I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.”
“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.”
“Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.”
“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.”
“I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.”