103 Fierce & Inspirational Quotes By Barbra Streisand
Barbra Streisand is a celebrated American vocalist, actress, director and song writer. She is termed as the ‘Mother of All Contemporary Pop Divas’ or ‘Queen of The Divas’. This can be largely accredited to the longevity and versatility of Streisand in various fields of entertainment. Streisand sold a whopping 68.5 million albums in the United States and 145 million records worldwide, thus making her one the best-selling female artists in American music history. With more than 53 gold albums, 31 platinum and 14 multi-platinum albums to boast about, Streisand holds the unique feat to have a number-one album in each of the last six decades. As an actor, she featured in various hit movies such as Funny Girl, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Way We Were and A Star Is Born. Along with her yet-to-be-released untitled autobiography, she published My Passion for Design. Here are some of the greatest quotes from this icon highlighting on her thoughts and sayings.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he's not the man she married?
I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.
How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
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.
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.
I like simple things. Elastic waists, so I can eat.
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.'
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
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.
I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.
I'm a work in progress.
The audience is the barometer of the truth.
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.
I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
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.
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.
I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.
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.
I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.
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.
There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.
There is nothing more important in life than love.
I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia.
I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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.
