Top 120 Barbra Streisand Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I’m a work in progress.”

— Barbra Streisand

2. “Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.”

— Barbra Streisand

3. “I can take any truth; just don’t lie to me.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

5. “I’m not weird, just different from people who aren’t different.”

— Barbra Streisand

6. “There is nothing more important in life than love.”

— Barbra Streisand

7. “Love comes from the most unexpected places.”

— Barbra Streisand

8. “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

9. “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

10. “You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.”

— Barbra Streisand

11. “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

12. “It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman.”

— Barbra Streisand

13. “Life’s too short. Start with Dessert!”

— Barbra Streisand

14. “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

15. “I need instant gratification.”

— Barbra Streisand

16. “I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.”

— Barbra Streisand

17. “You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it.”

— Barbra Streisand

18. “I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.”

— Barbra Streisand

19. “I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.”

— Barbra Streisand

20. “Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.”

— Barbra Streisand

21. “It’s not a date. We’re just agreeing to eat at the same table.”

— Barbra Streisand

22. “The artist as citizen is here to stay.”

— Barbra Streisand

23. “I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.”

— Barbra Streisand

24. “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

25. “When I sing, people shut up.”

— Barbra Streisand

26. “I don’t feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.”

— Barbra Streisand

27. “I go by instinct – I don’t worry about experience.”

— Barbra Streisand

28. “The audience is the barometer of the truth.”

— Barbra Streisand

29. “Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love.”

— Barbra Streisand

30. “Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.”

— Barbra Streisand

31. “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

32. “My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough?”

— Barbra Streisand

33. “Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.”

— Barbra Streisand

34. “It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.”

— Barbra Streisand

35. “I’m a terrible lip-syncer anyway because I have to be in the moment, and I can’t lip-sync to something I recorded three months before.”

— Barbra Streisand

36. “I can’t stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I’m Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

38. “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

39. “I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.”

— Barbra Streisand

40. “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

41. “Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?”

— Barbra Streisand

42. “Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.”

— Barbra Streisand

43. “Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.”

— Barbra Streisand

44. “Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married?”

— Barbra Streisand

45. “I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

47. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

48. “New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.”

— Barbra Streisand

49. “Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand