Artist Quotes by Barbra Streisand

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…

— Barbra Streisand

Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss.

— Barbra Streisand

They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.

— Barbra Streisand

I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I also do…

— Barbra Streisand

I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so sick.

— Barbra Streisand

For me, one of the most disturbing elements of the right wing's political agenda is that it believes that there is one correct spiritual…

— Barbra Streisand

I just don't like the idea of her singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another…

— Barbra Streisand

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…

— Barbra Streisand

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

— Barbra Streisand

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

— Barbra Streisand

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

— Barbra Streisand

I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things, too, like decorate.

— Barbra Streisand

The audience is the barometer of the truth.

— Barbra Streisand

I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don't want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess…

— Barbra Streisand

progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.

— Barbra Streisand