268 Quotes by Barbra Streisand

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

I only began to sing because I couldn't get a job as an actress.

My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.

Jim, I'm delighted to be here as your wife. I'm very proud of you.

I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.

Art finds a way to be constructive. It becomes heat in cold places; it becomes light in dark places.

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

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.