Top 100 Barbra Quotes
#1. I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!
Lauren London
#2. 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.
Barbra Streisand
#3. If Barbra Steisand wants to make a picture called 'My Pink Fingernail,' the studios will go, 'Gee, Barbra, what a wonderful idea! Money is no object! Take two years in preproduction and write the music, and you'll direct.'
Mickey Rooney
#4. As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.
Patricia Heaton
#5. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.
Colin Mochrie
#6. I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.
Jessie Ware
#7. It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.
Billy Joel
#8. Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.
Idina Menzel
#9. Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross ... they are the best.
Giorgio Moroder
#10. A guy said to me, 'You're so lucky. You have people like Ray Charles, Barbra Streisand and The Beatles doing your songs.' I figured out, though, the harder I work the luckier I get. The secret of anything is to surround yourself with good people if you want a good product.
Buck Owens
#11. I used to like Barbra Streisand films. It was 'Funny Girl' that really turned me on, in a sense, to acting. I remember it specifically being a rainy Saturday afternoon. I couldn't play football, so I stayed in, and I watched 'Funny Girl.'
Sean Harris
#12. On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.
Patricia Heaton
#13. Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.
Deborah Kass
#14. I've got to say that I don't see myself as some sort of political type like Alec Baldwin or Barbra Streisand. I don't want to come across like that. I'd be embarrassed if that was the way I came across.
Drew Carey
#15. I'm not a big scatology fan, unlike my sons, who can amuse themselves for an entire afternoon by repeating the phrase 'crocodile fart.' So I'll spare you from an overabundance of detail in this chapter. This chapter will be somewhat soft focus, like the TV camera in a Barbra Streisand interview.
A. J. Jacobs
#16. I've survived beach bunny cheerleaders, a sluthunting , ex-boyfriend, and five years of cross-country camp. I'm not afraid of some throwback to ancient myth with astrocious highlights and a Barbra Streisand nose.
Tera Lynn Childs
#17. I've always wanted to work with Barbra Streisand because she's worked with some of the best background singers in the world who are friends of mine, worked with them in concert or on movie soundtracks, and I always say 'Now, where was I? Where was I when she was hiring people to work with her?'
Darlene Love
#18. Barbra Streisand is without a doubt one of the most honest people I have ever known. There is no doubt in my mind that she will not be doing any more concerts. Of course, she still will be making records and starring and directing in movies.
Marvin Hamlisch
#19. I never read my reviews ... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
Pat Conroy
#20. I really enjoy watching people like Madonna, or Cher, or Barbra Streisand on the red carpet. I want to see people wearing exciting things that are different and to know that they're not just looking for the latest, most normal thing.
Dita Von Teese
#21. I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in 'Dirty Dancing' - these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it's great that everyone on 'Glee' is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.
Lea Michele
#22. Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?
Julian Ovenden
#23. We're really awful animals. I mean, that dumb Barbra Streisand song, 'People who need people are the luckiest people in the world' - she's talking about cannibals. Lot's to eat.
Kurt Vonnegut
#24. She [Barbra Streisand] was just - we can't know what we mean to each other. You know, artists, you can't know - you can't know that, but she was really important.
Meryl Streep
#25. My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat.
Marjorie Gubelmann
#26. I would say I grew up listening a lot to Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland and Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. I grew up listening to those because my parents were kind of into folk music.
Melora Hardin
#27. What is with this campy fixation on all things Ronald Reagan? They talk about him the way gay people talk about Barbra Streisand. I think they just want him on a stamp so they can lick his ass. I think they only named an airport after him so they can say, I'm coming into Reagan!
Bill Maher
#28. She put her hand to her head and was about to plead a headache when she glanced at Barbra, who gave her a look that said, I wouldn't if I were you...
Elaine Coffman
#29. Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.
Bruce McCall
#30. I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.
Jill Scott
#31. Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.
Kevin Hart
#32. Barbra Streisand developed overwhelming performance anxiety at the height of her career; for 27 years she refused to perform for the general public, appearing live only in private clubs and at charity events, where she presumably believed the pressure on her was less intense.
Scott Stossel
#33. Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.
Kevyn Aucoin
#34. I tried a couple of pop writers - none of the big, big, big ones - but it didn't work for me. I do have a commercial voice; I'm not quirky. I'm very normal and that's probably why I like people like Barbra Streisand and Whitney Houston. It's no-nonsense. They sing well, and that's it.
Jessie Ware
#35. You knew the difference between Barbra Streisand and Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles, straight away. Now everyone sounds like each other, and I don't think that's right.
Bobby Womack
#36. As far as female vocalists, I love Heart, Joan Jett, Courtney Love, Laura Branigan, Linda Ronstadt, Barbra Streisand - or going back to when I was a child, Aileen Quinn, the original Annie.
Fergie
#37. When I was a teenager I would lock myself in the bathroom for hours, bouffanting my hair like Patty Duke and trying to recreate Barbra Streisand's flawless eyeliner, only to comb it all out and wash it all off before stepping out into the world a butchish bisexual teen.
Beth Ditto
#38. Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's been against all the odds, and she's made such a name for herself, and she can put her name on anything and it sells, and I admire that about her, but Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen are my favorites.
Lauren London
#39. Seeing Jennifer Holliday from 'Dreamgirls' perform on the Tony Awards telecast and later discovering Barbra Streisand by listening to her albums at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh really changed everything for me.
Billy Porter
#40. Hillary Clinton and Nancy Reagan have a lot in common - they're both smarter than their husbands and both consulted the stars for guidance, Nancy with astrology and Hillary with Barbra Streisand.
Bill Maher
#41. TRAVIS: I never said I like boys!
GORDO: Ever beat off to Penthouse?
TRAVIS: No.
GORDO: Ever collect baseball cards?
TRAVIS: No.
GORDO: How old is Barbra Streisand?
TRAVIS: 36. Three weeks ago.
GORDO:What do you need - a fucking blueprint?
Steve Kluger
#42. I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'
Peter Berg
#43. Look at the insane things the Jews believe. The Jews believe that Barbra Streisand is worth $1,000 bucks a ticket.
Greg Giraldo
#44. There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I'm label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand.
Jussie Smollett
#45. I realized I was gay in the shower one day with Barbra Streisand. It happened while I was lathering, rinsing, and repeating with Pert Plus. As I was belting out the chorus to my favorite song from 'Funny Girl,' 'Oh my man, I love him so, he'll never know ... ' it hit me.
Ross Mathews
#46. If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
Norman Granz
#47. 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
#48. It's very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will.
Barbra Streisand
#49. I'm not weird, just different from people who aren't different.
Barbra Streisand
#51. Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?
Barbra Streisand
#53. 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 or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.
Barbra Streisand
#54. 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.
Barbra Streisand
#57. And I'll be a witch in hell before I let someone hurt my dogs.
Barbra Annino
#58. It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
Barbra Streisand
#59. My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
Barbra Streisand
#60. Progress, whatever your definition of it, is not inevitable.
Barbra Streisand
#61. I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
Barbra Streisand
#62. It is true, even people with painful childhoods ... grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.
Barbra Streisand
#63. I thought a shit storm was coming, and I had no umbrella.
Barbra Annino
#64. Moviemakers can be late to a subject, or afraid, but often they are brave and ahead of their time.
Barbra Streisand
#65. The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.
Barbra Streisand
#66. Being a celebrity is a no-win situation. If you get along with your co-star you're having an affair, if you don't you're having a feud.
Barbra Streisand
#67. 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.
Barbra Streisand
#68. Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.
Barbra Streisand
#69. A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself.
Barbra Streisand
#70. Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.
Barbra Streisand
#72. I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
Barbra Streisand
#73. I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
Barbra Streisand
#74. 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
#75. They're called 'angels' because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
Barbra Streisand
#76. I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
Barbra Streisand
#78. 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
#79. One thing's for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl (1968), I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice.
Barbra Streisand
#80. I'm interested in the truth, and unauthorized biographies are not. Yes, I would like to correct those errors someday.
Barbra Streisand
#82. Issues of foreign policy have a place in every election for President.
Barbra Streisand
#83. However ... " he said. "Now see, that's just a but with more meat on it.
Barbra Annino
#84. Why is it people who want the truth never believe it when they hear it?
Barbra Streisand
#85. 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
#86. I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
Barbra Streisand
#87. I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
Barbra Streisand
#88. How could such a destructive man [referring to Bush] be so popular with the American people? ... Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well.
Barbra Streisand
#91. His voice was chipper. Cinnamon hated chipper. She wrapped Chipper up in duct tape, pounded nails into it and used it to beat the crap out of Perky.
Barbra Annino
#93. I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.
Barbra Streisand
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. You know, I can't remember my good reviews. I remember negative ones. They stay in my mind.
Barbra Streisand
#97. 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
#98. I hear these melodies. I hear horn lines and string lines. That's what's fun about recording with an orchestra.
Barbra Streisand
#99. 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
#100. I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand
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