Quotes from Barbra Streisand

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.

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

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?

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.

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.

I don't feel like a legend. I feel like a work in progress.

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.

I never liked stardom. It's weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Art transcends politics this weekend.

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 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".

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

I still like my antique clothes.

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.

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

It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.