110+ Barbra Streisand Quotes On Iconic, Versatile And Charismatic

Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, and filmmaker. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, and a Peabody Award. Streisand is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with more than 68.5 million albums in the U.S. and with a total of 150 million albums and singles sold worldwide. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Barbra Streisand on love, iconic, versatile.

Top 10 Barbra Streisand Quotes

1. I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
2. Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
3. I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
4. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
5. The idea of a liberal media bias is simply a myth. If only it were true, we might have a more humane, open-minded, and ultimately effective public debate on the issues facing the country.
6. I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth.
7. 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.
8. Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
9. Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.
10. 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 Short Quotes

• Life's too short. Start with Dessert!
• How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
• I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
• I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
• A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.
• I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
• I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.
• I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
• We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.
• I need instant gratification.

Barbra Streisand Quotes About Love

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

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success. — Barbra Streisand

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

Love comes from the most unexpected places. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

He (son Jason) doesn't see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know? — Barbra Streisand

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

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this. — Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Quotes About Work

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

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don't. — 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

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

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me? — Barbra Streisand

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress. — Barbra Streisand

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work. — Barbra Streisand

I'm a work in progress. — Barbra Streisand

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress. — Barbra Streisand

I worked in a Chinese restaurant. — Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Quotes About People

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

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

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

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions. — Barbra Streisand

I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different. — 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

And remember, this was a president (George W. Bush) who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people. — Barbra Streisand

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

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it! — Barbra Streisand

Barbra Streisand Quotes About Unattractive

I was a personality before I became a person. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

Barbra Streisand Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other's differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same. — 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

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places. — Barbra Streisand

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

For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual and moral path for all people to follow. The danger inherent in this is its explicit refusal to accept anyone who happens to lead a different lifestyle, and the condemnation of those who differ. — Barbra Streisand

The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want valenties and cupids and all of that crap. I want it all. — Barbra Streisand

If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical. — Barbra Streisand

I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up. — 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

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

The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability. — Barbra Streisand

The audience is the barometer of the truth. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

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

I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships. — 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 hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl, he said: "I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can't. It's the best film I've seen since Citizen Kane". — Barbra Streisand

It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something. — Barbra Streisand

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberators -- they 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

I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand! (on Diana Ross) — Barbra Streisand

I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about. — Barbra Streisand

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times. — Barbra Streisand

It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table. — Barbra Streisand

New York critics - I hear when one of them watched "A Star Is Born", he talked back to the screen. — 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

It’s like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he’s supposed to change for the worse. It’s silly. — Barbra Streisand

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work. — Barbra Streisand

No one should have to conform to some mythical concept of the ideal family. — Barbra Streisand

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

A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously. — Barbra Streisand

You know, for me, the realization that two people should have the right to form a sacred union regardless of their gender was strengthened when I saw a performance of the play The Normal Heart in 1985. After feeling the love those two men had for each other, I dare anybody not to want them to get married by the end. — Barbra Streisand

I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn. — Barbra Streisand

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

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman. — Barbra Streisand

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate. — Barbra Streisand

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time. — Barbra Streisand

I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress. — Barbra Streisand

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough? — Barbra Streisand

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

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway. — Barbra Streisand

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

I'd take out a joint and light it. First, just faking it. Then I started lighting live joints, passing them around to the band, you know. I was great, it relieved all my tensions. And I ended up with the greatest supply of grass ever. Other acts up and down the Strip heard about what I was doing - Little Anthony and the Imperials, people like that - and started sending me the best dope in the world. I never ran out. — Barbra Streisand

My mother never really thought I could become anything. — Barbra Streisand

I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things. — Barbra Streisand

I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality. — Barbra Streisand

You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it. — 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

Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud. — Barbra Streisand

I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening. — Barbra Streisand

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. — Barbra Streisand

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

Life Lessons by Barbra Streisand

1. Barbra Streisand has shown that hard work and dedication can lead to success, no matter the odds. She has achieved success in multiple fields, from singing to acting to directing, despite the challenges of being a female in a male-dominated industry.
2. Streisand has also emphasized the importance of staying true to yourself and your values. She has remained outspoken about her political and social beliefs, even when it has been unpopular.
3. Finally, Streisand has demonstrated the power of resilience. Despite numerous setbacks, she has persevered and continued to pursue her dreams, inspiring others to do the same.