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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.
Barbra Streisand

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

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

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

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

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