Barbra Streisand Quotes (53 Quotes)


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

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

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

    What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.


    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.'

    Bitches. It's a very male-chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible.


    Just the sadness of, we're there, but don't want to have those people in harm's way, and yet we do have to support (the troops). It's kind of painful, and I had always imagined just seeing footage of the troops, it's like history repeating itself here we are again. That was the meaning to me.

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

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

    I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

    I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.

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

    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.

    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.

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

    I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable - and very, very frightening.

    Normally, I would not dignify vicious, mean-spirited mythology masquerading as biography.

    The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically.

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

    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.

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

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


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

    Jim, I'm delighted to be here as your wife. I'm very proud of you.

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


    A human being is only interesting if hes in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it.


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

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

    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 don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

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

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

    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.

    How could such a destructive man George W. 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'm very grateful to the members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association who have been so supportive of me throughout my career.

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


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

    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 don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.



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