And her insistence on keeping her now iconic stage name is certainly no exception to her rule.
The rebellious, iconic Jewish girl from Brooklyn
Streisand’s career began on the stage.
Her career-changing role came in 1964 when she was cast as Fanny Brice in “Funny Girl.”
It proved impossible for anyone who tried.
She was a force to be reckoned with, and she knew it.
Still, that didn’t stop some people from trying to change her anyway.
Their first attempt to do so was a suggestion to Streisand to change her name to Barbara Sands.
“I thought, ‘What?
Streisand is my name.
I don’t want to change it,” she recounted.
As she told Jimmy Fallon, “I am neither too sweet or too saucy.”
And she’s right Streisand is not too much of anything.
She’s perfectly, quintessentially herself, which has made her decades-long career all the more awe-inspiring.
