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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

The artist as citizen is here to stay. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

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

Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself. — Bruce McCall

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

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

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build. — 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 arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me. — Barbra Streisand

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway? — 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 wasn't supported, I wasn't given any self-esteem. — Barbra Streisand

I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat. — Barbra Streisand

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

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out. — 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 never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work. — Barbra Streisand

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

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress. — Barbra Streisand

Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it? — 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

I'm a work in progress. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

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

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

I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday. — Barbra Streisand

I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra. — Barbra Streisand

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

I won't leave forks in the dish rack overnight because I believe that the tines attract demonic energy. — Barbra Streisand

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

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights. — Barbra Streisand

You 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? — Barbra Streisand

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

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

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

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

Art transcends politics this weekend. — Barbra Streisand

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

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs. — Colin Mochrie

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good. — Norman Granz

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed. — Barbra Streisand

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity. — 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

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

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates. — Patricia Heaton

I am a nice person. I care about my driver having lunch, you know ... — Barbra Streisand

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

You've got to discover you, what you do, and trust it. — 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 go by instinct - i don't worry about experience. — Barbra Streisand

what with the follies and an indecent proposal it's been quite a night — Barbra Streisand

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

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. It's so sick. — Barbra Streisand

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married? — 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

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

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me. — Barbra Streisand

We elected a President, not a Pope. — Barbra Streisand

Look at the insane things the Jews believe. The Jews believe that Barbra Streisand is worth $1,000 bucks a ticket. — Greg Giraldo

I still like my antique clothes. — 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

I never sing in the shower either. — Barbra Streisand

You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind. — Barbra Streisand

Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

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

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains. — Barbra Streisand

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

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

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

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

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially. — Barbra Streisand

Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. — Barbra Streisand

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself. — Barbra Streisand

You don't keep a dog and bark yourself. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

I'd rather not talk about money. It's kind of gross. — Barbra Streisand

There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I'm label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand. — Jussie Smollett

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way. — Barbra Streisand