Barbra Streisand Quotes

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, Person

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

Anniversary, Change, Work

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

Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

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

Care, Wrong, Sure

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

Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

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.
Barbra Streisand

Good, Strength, Bad

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

Trust, Discover

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, Good, Difficult

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

Time, Wish, Necessary

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

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

Nose, Name, Hollywood

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

Experience, Worry, Instinct

Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
Barbra Streisand

Process, Inner, Performing

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

Life, Love, Important

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

Bad, Wish, Said

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

Around, Loss, Totally

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

I'm a work in progress.
Barbra Streisand

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

Wish, Privacy, Ambitious

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

Women, Work, Men

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

Best, Truth, Judge

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

Matter, Child, Mature

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

Women, Work, 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.
Barbra Streisand

Home, Help, Sick

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.
Barbra Streisand

Family, Through, Arrogance

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Nationality: American

Born: April 24, 1942

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