Barbra Streisand Quotes

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.

I can say, 'I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won't do that because it makes me uncomfortable.' Or I could say, 'Get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that's risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?'

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

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

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

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.

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.

My friend Quincy Jones says we won our first Grammys together in 1963. I have no recollection. I don't even remember the room. When he showed me the picture, I remembered what I wore. But it's like awards don't mean anything.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

The artist as citizen is here to stay.

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

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

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

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.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

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.

When I sing, people shut up.

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

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

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

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.

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

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

I'm a work in progress.

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

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.

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.

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.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

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

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?

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.

Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.

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

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

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.

I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.