Barbra Streisand Quotes - Page 2

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.

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'm a work in progress.

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

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.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all.

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it's a lot of work. It's work to be a star. I don't enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.