A biography for Barbra Streisandhasn’t been written yet.
“It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.”
“I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.”
“I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.”
“Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.”
“I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.”
“I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.”
“Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?”
“I never sing in the shower either.”
“I still like my antique clothes.”
“There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.”
“As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.”
“I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.”
“Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.”
“My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?”
“Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.”
“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 hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.”
“When I sing, people shut up.”
“I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.”
“I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.”