Famous Quotes

Quotes by 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.
• 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.
• I can take any truth just don't lie to me.
• I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.
• 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.
• 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.
• I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
• Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
• Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.
• 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.
• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?
• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
• Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?
• You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.