Barbra Streisand Quotes


Barbra Streisand

"Oh God, don`t envy me, I have my own pains."

"The audience is the barometer of the truth."

"I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven."

"I hate tooting my own horn, but after Steven Spielberg saw Yentl (1983), he said, `I wish I could tell you how to fix your picture, but I can`t. It`s the best film I`ve seen since Citizen Kane (1941)`".

"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".

A human being is only interesting if he`s in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

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.

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.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man`s habits and then complain that he`s not the man she married?






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