"A large part of me is pure nebbish - plain, dull, uninteresting. There's a more flamboyant part, too. Obviously." - Barbra Streisand
"And remember, this was a president [George W. Bush] who was selected by the Supreme Court rather than the people." - Barbra Streisand
"Around people I don't know, I'm totally at a loss." - Barbra Streisand
"Bitches. It's a very male-chauvinist word. I resent it deeply. A person who's a bitch would seem to be mean for no reason. I'm not a mean person. Maybe I'm rude without being aware of it - that's possible." - Barbra Streisand
"How could such a destructive man [George W. Bush] be so popular with the American people? Not only is he poisoning our air and water - he's poisoning our political system as well." - Barbra Streisand
"How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination." - Barbra Streisand
"I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven." - Barbra Streisand
"I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me." - Barbra Streisand
"I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly." - Barbra Streisand
"I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong." - 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." - Barbra Streisand
"I don't know why it is that we need to denigrate, to knock down. It's so unhealthy for the culture. It's so sick." - Barbra Streisand
"I don't like the word 'superstar'. It has ridiculous implications. These words - star, stupor, superstar, stupid star - they're misleading. It's a myth." - Barbra Streisand
"I find bringing the country to the brink of war unilaterally five weeks before an election questionable - and very, very frightening." - Barbra Streisand
"I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening." - Barbra Streisand
"I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way." - Barbra Streisand
"I just don't like the idea of her [Diana Ross] singing my songs. Who the hell does she thinks she is? The world doesn't need another Streisand!" - Barbra Streisand
"I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations." - Barbra Streisand
"I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something." - Barbra Streisand
"I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven." - 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.'" - Barbra Streisand
"I'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all." - Barbra Streisand
"I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me." - Barbra Streisand
"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." - Barbra Streisand
"I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror." - Barbra Streisand
"It's like an American tradition. A person gets successful and then he's supposed to change for the worse. It's silly." - Barbra Streisand
"Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?" - Barbra Streisand
"Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work." - Barbra Streisand
"Most awards, y'know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - didja know that? Terribly discouraging." - Barbra Streisand
"My biggest nightmare is I'm driving home and get sick and go to hospital. I say: 'Please help me.' And the people say: 'Hey, you look like...' And I'm dying while they're wondering whether I'm Barbra Streisand." - Barbra Streisand
"Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression." - Barbra Streisand
"New York critics - I hear when one of them watched A Star Is Born, he talked back to the screen." - Barbra Streisand
"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice." - Barbra Streisand
"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." - Barbra Streisand
"The moral immune system of this country has been weakened and attacked, and the AIDS virus is the perfect metaphor for it. The malignant neglect of the last twelve years has led to breakdown of our country's immune system, environmentally, culturally, politically, spiritually and physically." - Barbra Streisand
"The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability." - Barbra Streisand
"They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out." - Barbra Streisand
"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." - Barbra Streisand
"We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress." - Barbra Streisand
"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." - Barbra Streisand
"What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to." - Barbra Streisand
"Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?" - Barbra Streisand
"Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?" - Barbra Streisand
"Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?" - Barbra Streisand
