Top 45 Barbra Streisand Quotes

I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.

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

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.

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

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.

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.

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

I’m interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

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.

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

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.

It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn’t set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.

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.

I need instant gratification.

I still like my antique clothes.

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

I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.

I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.

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.

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

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

Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.

I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.

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.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work… a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her 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 can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.

Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

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.

I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.

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

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 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.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.

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

I never sing in the shower either.

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

I’m a work in progress.

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.