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.Collection: Trust
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.Collection: Gardening
I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.Collection: Experience
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?Collection: Anniversary
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?Collection: Famous
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.Collection: Art
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?Collection: Women
Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.Collection: Women
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.Collection: Women
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.Collection: Teacher
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.Collection: Success
We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.Collection: Family
I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.Collection: Health
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.Collection: Strength
Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.Collection: Design
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.Collection: Trust
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.Collection: Strength
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.
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.
I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
I still like my antique clothes.
When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.
I never sing in the shower either.
I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister's, not like my son's - a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful.
Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?
I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
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.
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
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.
When I sing, people shut up.
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
I need instant gratification.
I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.