Barbra Streisand quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.
- Barbra Streisand

I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
- 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

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
- 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 just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
- Barbra Streisand

I'm a work in progress.
- Barbra Streisand

The audience is the barometer of the truth.
- 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 find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
- Barbra Streisand

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

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

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

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

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

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
- Barbra Streisand