Barbra Streisand Quotes

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

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

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

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

I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.

You don't ask a man, 'Do you want to be in control [of your job]?' You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?

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

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

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

We elected a President, not a Pope.

I wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people?... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.

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

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

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

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people.

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen.

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

I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.

Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

Art transcends politics this weekend.

It's true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know.

In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

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.

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

When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.

I worked in a Chinese restaurant.

I'm a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can't lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

Art does not exist only to entertain -- but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, in a constant search for the truth.

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

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

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

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

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

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