Barbra Streisand Quotes

The writing partnership is a good collaboration for the same reason the marriage works, which is two people who can stand alone choosing to stand together.

Let a woman have her place, because as you provide foundation for her, she provides a foundation for you. And through that vulnerability comes strength.

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

If you want help from partners, that means listening to them every once in a while.

If you don't have to have a partner, don't take one. If you do need one, look for a partner who can complement your weaknesses with their strengths. If you are at odds, you are never going to get anything done.

Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others' negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.

We all can't shine at the same time.

The best part of being married is, everything we face in life, we face as a team. I don't do a thing - professionally or personally - without discussing it with my wife.

Everything's a lot easier when you work with someone you know just about as well as you know yourself.

You can be romantically interested in someone and love them and still, I think, be really interested in things and a certain lifestyle that person might provide.

It is not only one person's work, it's really a partnership and collaboration during all these years.

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.

When you're with another actor and doing something very intense, often you pull them over to your side, or they pull you over to theirs. But if you stay in your own truth, you can play that perfect tennis match. I always want to bring my power, but not in a way that eliminates the whole game!

When you find somebody who doesn't give and take, you go, 'Remind me never to work with you again.'

I'm not really a control person, and I'm a big believer in collaboration. I like to have a friend.

You cannot work with men who won't work with you.

A band is like a marriage, and if you're in a marriage with someone, and you lose yourself in that marriage, the relationship is over, really.

I think a good relationship is about collaboration.

Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both.

I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

Chemistry is really about two people who like to act together, I think. It's like tennis in the most cliched way. It's like if you hit the ball, they hit the ball back, and they don't hit it into the stands, and they don't put the ball in their pocket and walk off - and they don't argue with the umpire, you know?

Marriage should be a duet - when one sings, the other claps.