One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
BARBRA STREISANDYou don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different?
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
-
-
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND -
I worked in a Chinese restaurant.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.
BARBRA STREISAND -
They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.
BARBRA STREISAND -
The dream – you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
BARBRA STREISAND -
How could such a destructive man [referring to 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.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
BARBRA STREISAND -
I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.
BARBRA STREISAND -
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 -
I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.
BARBRA STREISAND -
New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.
BARBRA STREISAND -
The artist as citizen is here to stay.
BARBRA STREISAND -
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 -
. . . 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 -
I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.
BARBRA STREISAND -
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 -
Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique.
BARBRA STREISAND -
When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
BARBRA STREISAND -
My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
BARBRA STREISAND -
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 -
It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
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