Quotes from Barbra Streisand

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

I guess if you have an original take on life, or something about you is original, you don't have to study people who came before you. You don't have to mimic anybody. You just have a gut feeling inside, an instinct that tells you what's right for you, and you can't do it in any other way.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

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

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

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

I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.

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

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.

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, "Go on, go on - you can do it!

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

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.'

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

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

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.

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.

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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

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.

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.

I go by instinct - I don't worry about experience.

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

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.