Barbra Streisand quotes

Bitches. It's a very male chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it, that's possible.

Barbra Streisand

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work, a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

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Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

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My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me. ' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand.

Barbra Streisand

I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.

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A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it.

Barbra Streisand

A large part of me is pure nebbish, plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

Barbra Streisand

I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

Barbra Streisand

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?

Barbra Streisand

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

Barbra Streisand

I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

Barbra Streisand

It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly.

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I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. It's so sick.

Barbra Streisand

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

Barbra Streisand

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause, that I can respond to.

Barbra Streisand

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

Barbra Streisand

There is nothing more important in life than love.

Barbra Streisand

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

Barbra Streisand

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.

Barbra Streisand

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

Barbra Streisand

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

Barbra Streisand

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

Barbra Streisand

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.

Barbra Streisand

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Barbra Streisand

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'.

Barbra Streisand

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

Barbra Streisand

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags, they're gonna cough.

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.

Barbra Streisand

I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable, and very, very frightening.

Barbra Streisand

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.

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I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.

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How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

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My bust was visible under a negligee in one scene. Suddenly I was worried that people might concentrate on my body instead of on my acting.

Barbra Streisand

When I sing, people shut up.

Barbra Streisand