progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
BARBRA STREISANDLove comes from the most unexpected places.
More Barbra Streisand Quotes
-
-
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 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 -
Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Why don’t you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I’m a little low in sugar and I don’t have any cream, but it’s real coffee.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.
BARBRA STREISAND -
A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.
BARBRA STREISAND -
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Art transcends politics this weekend.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
BARBRA STREISAND -
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 -
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 -
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.
BARBRA STREISAND -
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 -
Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
BARBRA STREISAND -
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
BARBRA STREISAND -
I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress.
BARBRA STREISAND -
When I sing, people shut up.
BARBRA STREISAND -
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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 -
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 -
I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
BARBRA STREISAND -
When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
BARBRA STREISAND