Quotes By Barbra Streisand

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

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

I never sing in the shower either.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

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

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've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

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

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

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

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

I'm a work in progress.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I need instant gratification.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

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?

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

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.

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

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

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

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

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

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