I always wear the same thing at home. I can’t be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about. – Barbra Streisand
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man’s habits and then complain that he’s not the man she married? – Barbra Streisand
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people’s views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it’s also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do – bad or good. – Barbra Streisand
I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle. – Barbra Streisand
I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way. – Barbra Streisand
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
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
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
Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this. – Barbra Streisand
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? – 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. – Barbra Streisand
In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It’s not so competitive. – Barbra Streisand
I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress. – Barbra Streisand
My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister’s, not like my son’s – a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful. – Barbra Streisand
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. – Barbra Streisand
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. – 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 be good. – Barbra Streisand
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.’ – Barbra Streisand
I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. – Barbra Streisand
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. – Barbra Streisand
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
I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things. – Barbra Streisand
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
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