Barbra Streisand Quotes - Page 6

I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you know. I was great, it relieved all my tensions. And I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. Other acts up and down the Strip heard about what I was doing - Little Anthony and the Imperials, people like that - and started sending me the best dope in the world. I never ran out.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

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 find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

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.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

We elected a President, not a Pope.

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

What is dangerous about the far right is not that it takes religion seriously - most of us do - but rather that it condemns all other spiritual choices - the Buddhist, the Jew, the Muslim, and many others who consider themselves to be good Christians. The wall of separation between church and state is needed precisely because religion, like art, is too important a part of the human experience to be choked by the hands of censors.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.