Quotes By Barbra Streisand

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

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.

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.

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

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.

There is nothing more important in life than love.

They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

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.

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

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

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

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

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'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

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

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 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.'

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

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.

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

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

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.