Top 120 Barbra Streisand Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “I don’t know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It’s so unhealthy for the culture. It’s so sick.”

— Barbra Streisand

102. “Everybody’s frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?”

— Barbra Streisand

103. “Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.”

— Barbra Streisand

104. “I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.”

— Barbra Streisand

105. “We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.”

— Barbra Streisand

106. “When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn’t be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.”

— Barbra Streisand

107. “A human being is only interesting if he’s in contact with himself.”

— Barbra Streisand

108. “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

109. “Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.”

— Barbra Streisand

110. “It takes me about 10 years to appreciate what it is I’ve done.”

— Barbra Streisand

111. “Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging.”

— Barbra Streisand

112. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

113. “If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

115. “You know, I can’t remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.”

— Barbra Streisand

116. “You don’t keep a dog and bark yourself.”

— Barbra Streisand

117. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

118. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

119. “I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.”

— Barbra Streisand

120. “I’m tired of malicious articles slandering me.”

— Barbra Streisand

121. “Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

123. “It’s true that I have a very healthy ego; anybody who creates does.”

— Barbra Streisand

124. “Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.”

— Barbra Streisand

125. “I’ve considered having my nose fixed. But I didn’t trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.”

— Barbra Streisand

126. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

127. “I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.”

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

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

— Barbra Streisand

130. “Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.”

— Barbra Streisand

131. “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.”

— Barbra Streisand

132. “I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That’s what’s fun about recording with an orchestra.”

— Barbra Streisand

133. “My mother never really thought I could become anything.”

— Barbra Streisand

134. “I prefer things that are private, so I love recording and I love making films, as a filmmaker, because it uses every bit of what you have experienced or know, whether it’s graphics composition, decorating, psychology, storytelling, or whatever it is. It’s a wonderful thing.”

— Barbra Streisand

135. “I never sing in the shower either.”

— Barbra Streisand

136. “I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.”

— Barbra Streisand