Top 120 Barbra Streisand Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.”

— Barbra Streisand

52. “If a man wants to get it right, he’s looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she’s difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he’s called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she’s called vain and egotistical.”

— Barbra Streisand

53. “Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.”

— Barbra Streisand

54. “Art transcends politics this weekend.”

— Barbra Streisand

55. “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

56. “I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.”

— Barbra Streisand

57. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

58. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

59. “I’d rather not talk about money. It’s kind of gross.”

— Barbra Streisand

60. “I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.”

— Barbra Streisand

61. “Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He’s done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?”

— Barbra Streisand

62. “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

63. “I worked in a Chinese restaurant.”

— Barbra Streisand

64. “I still like my antique clothes.”

— Barbra Streisand

65. “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

66. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

67. “Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.”

— Barbra Streisand

68. “I just don’t want to be hampered by my own limitations.”

— Barbra Streisand

69. “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

70. “Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.”

— Barbra Streisand

71. “I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.”

— Barbra Streisand

72. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

74. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

75. “We elected a President, not a Pope.”

— Barbra Streisand

76. “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

77. “I don’t like talking about myself and I don’t like talking about the work.”

— Barbra Streisand

78. “When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.”

— Barbra Streisand

79. “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

80. “I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.”

— Barbra Streisand

81. “I was a personality before I became a person.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

83. “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

84. “In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

86. “Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?”

— Barbra Streisand

87. “A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.”

— Barbra Streisand

88. “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

89. “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

90. “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

91. “When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn’t pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

93. “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

94. “I don’t think I’m tough in a so called tough way. I’m tough on myself.”

— Barbra Streisand

95. “I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.”

— Barbra Streisand

96. “I won’t leave forks in the dish rack overnight because I believe that the tines attract demonic energy.”

— Barbra Streisand

97. “I don’t read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.”

— Barbra Streisand

98. “They’re called ‘angels’ because they’re in heaven until the reviews come out.”

— Barbra Streisand

99. “Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?”

— Barbra Streisand

100. “I wasn’t supported, I wasn’t given any self-esteem.”

— Barbra Streisand