268 Quotes by Barbra Streisand

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.

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.

I’d started going to acting classes at 14, played ‘Medea’ at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress.

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.

Just imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same. My idea of a perfect world is one in which we really appreciated each other’s differences: Short, tall; Democrat, Republican; black, white; gay, straight-a world in which all of us are equal, but definitely not the same.

I’m not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn’t talked about at all.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man’s world.

Sometimes, when you work with mediocre talents, they feel entitled. They act like stars. Genuinely talented people don’t.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don’t think I’d have made it any other way.