Quotes By Barbra Streisand

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

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

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

I'm a work in progress.

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

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

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.

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

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?

My mother never really thought I could become anything.

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'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?

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

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

There is nothing more important in life than love.

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

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

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

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

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