Barbra Streisand famous quotes

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

#Trust #Self Esteem #Trust No One

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don't care 100%, who will? It's my name, my likeness that goes out there.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Names #Care #Want

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?
-- Barbra Streisand

#Children #Women #Empowering

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

#Thinking #Way #Tough

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

#Time #Law #Racism

It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I've done.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Years #Appreciate #Done

A human being is only interesting if he's 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. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Interesting #Over You #Way

I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do believe that belief and imagination manifests reality. And therefore, even though it took twenty-five years, I did find the house, eventually, and the man I could live with.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Appreciation #Believe #Reality

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

#Names #Care

I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it's graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It's a wonderful thing.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Psychology #Use #Wonderful

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

#Success #Congratulations #Ice Cream

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Honesty #Drama #Thinking

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.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Strength #Crazy #Two

I can't cook, at all. I would not know how to make coffee. I took cooking classes, so I know how to make chocolate soufflé, but ask me if I want to make soufflé. I let somebody else make the chocolate soufflé, and I eat it. I found that, when I took cooking classes and tried to cook, I didn't want to eat it. The joy was gone. I was always filthy with the stuff, and then had to clean it up. I don't like that.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Coffee #Class #Joy

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

#Inspirational #Funny #Success

I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.
-- Barbra Streisand

#People #Different

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Growing Up #People #Interesting

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

#Art #Thinking #Challenges

I tell you what I envy about people in love - I'd love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I'm afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use." - Rose Morgan
-- Barbra Streisand

#Mean #Rose #People

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

#Badass #Women #Passion

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

#Names #History #Hollywood

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Two #Doubt #Balance

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.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Hurt #Feet #Style

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
-- Barbra Streisand

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Waste #Wasting Time #Progression

When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
-- Barbra Streisand

#New York #Teenager #Clothes

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
-- Barbra Streisand

#People #Stay True To Yourself #Authenticity

There is nothing more important in life than love.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Love #Important

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.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Umpires #Judging #Lag

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

#Worry #Experience #Instinct

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.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Art #Thinking #Names

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.'
-- Barbra Streisand

#Writing #Play #Wish

I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Falling In Love #Color #House

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

#Class #Acting #Actresses

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Girl #Thinking #Brooklyn

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

#Errors #Biographies #Someday

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Tired #Articles

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

#Trust #Mirrors #Noses

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Holiday #Records #Listening To Music

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Issues #President #Election

It always gave me the creeps when I saw performers who desperately wanted the audience to like them. That's not what I'm about.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Saws #Creeps #Wanted

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

#Father #School #Honor

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

#Awards #Giving #Discouraging

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

#Mother #Actresses #Should

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.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Song #Writing #People

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

#Fun #Orchestra #Lines

I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Ambitious #Doing Nothing #Kind

I never sing in the shower either.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Showers

I need instant gratification.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Needs #Instant Gratification #Instant

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

#Thinking #Singing #Way

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.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Interesting

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.
-- Barbra Streisand

#Design #Special #Furniture