Barbra Streisand Quotes

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

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

You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.

When I sing, people shut up.

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?

I need instant gratification.

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

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.

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

I never sing in the shower either.

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.

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.

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

I still like my antique clothes.

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

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

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.

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

Why don't you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I'm a little low in sugar and I don't have any cream, but it's real coffee.

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.

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

I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane".

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

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.

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

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.

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

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

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.

You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

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.

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family.

It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.

It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

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

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross)

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

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the 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.