I was a personality before I became a person – I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven. – Barbra Streisand
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening. – Barbra Streisand
Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice. – Barbra Streisand
I also have intense relationships with furniture… probably because we practically had none when I was growing up. – Barbra Streisand
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
I’m sure that I don’t know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn. – Barbra Streisand
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
Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? – Barbra Streisand
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
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
What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other… but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other. – Barbra Streisand
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
Most awards, you know, they don’t give you unless you go and get them – did you know that? Terribly discouraging. – Barbra Streisand
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. – Barbra Streisand
Just like my father, I’ve always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society. – Barbra Streisand
