Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
Barbra Streisand
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Barbra Streisand
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: April 24
Actor
Director
Film Actor
Film Director
Film Producer
Jazz Musician
Recording Artist
Screenwriter
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Stage Actor
Brooklyn
New York
Barbra Joan Streisand
Barbara Joan Streisand
Essentially
Read
Music
Even
More quotes by Barbra Streisand
Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall Democrat, Republican black, white gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.
Barbra Streisand
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
Barbra Streisand
He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know?
Barbra Streisand
Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.
Barbra Streisand
I was a personality before I became a person.
Barbra Streisand
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
Barbra Streisand
My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.
Barbra Streisand
It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
Barbra Streisand
I'm a work in progress.
Barbra Streisand
I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
Barbra Streisand
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.
Barbra Streisand
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?'
Barbra Streisand
It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.
Barbra Streisand
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
Barbra Streisand
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
Barbra Streisand
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
Barbra Streisand
When I sing, people shut up.
Barbra Streisand
I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
Barbra Streisand
I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?
Barbra Streisand
It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.
Barbra Streisand
