BARBRA STREISAND

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.

I never sing in the shower either.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

I'm a work in progress.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

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.

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.

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

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.

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

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 wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.

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

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

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.

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

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