268 Quotes by 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.’

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.

I don’t care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.

New York critics – I hear when one of them watched “A Star Is Born”, he talked back to the screen.

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.

A large part of me is pure nebbish – plain, dull, uninteresting. There’s a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously.

Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.

Around people I don’t know, I’m totally at a loss.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music – unless it’s Billie Holiday.