My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much.… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice,… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
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… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
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… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate. — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
