When I sing, people shut up. — Barbra Streisand

I never sing in the shower either. — Barbra Streisand

I only began to sing because I couldn’t get a job as an actress. — Barbra Streisand

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn’t that enough? — Barbra Streisand

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. — Barbra Streisand

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway. — Barbra Streisand

It is every woman’s dream to be some man’s dream woman. — Barbra Streisand

As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights. — Barbra Streisand

You don’t ask a man, ‘Do you want to be in control [of your job]?’ You assume he wants control. Why would a woman be any different? — Barbra Streisand

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

A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. — Barbra Streisand

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn. — Barbra Streisand

One thing’s for sure: now when I look at Funny Girl, I think I was gorgeous. I was too beautiful to play Fanny Brice. — Barbra Streisand

I tell you what I envy about people in love–I’d love it if someone knew me I mean really knew me. What I like what I’m afraid of what kind of toothpaste I use. — Rose Morgan

There is nothing more important in life than love. — Barbra Streisand

Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. — Barbra Streisand

Everyone has a right to love and be loved, and nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong. — Barbra Streisand

I love things that are indescribable, like the taste of an avocado or the smell of a gardenia. — Barbra Streisand

Eighteenth century American furniture and the design of the architects Greene and Greene are my special love. — Barbra Streisand

Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this. — Barbra Streisand

I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle. — Barbra Streisand

Love comes from the most unexpected places. — Barbra Streisand

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it’s created. It really hates success. — Barbra Streisand

He (son Jason) doesn’t see me as a (gay) icon, he sees me as his mother who touches his hair too much. No, I love being an icon to anybody. Equal rights, you know? — Barbra Streisand

I’ll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head. — Barbra Streisand

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

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

I never liked stardom. It’s weird to me. I only like the creative process. I only like the work. — 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

I think when I was younger, I wanted to be a star, until I became a star, and then it’s a lot of work. It’s work to be a star. I don’t enjoy the stardom part. I only enjoy the creative process. — 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

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man, then complain he’s not the man she married? — Barbra Streisand

I was a personality before I became a person. — Barbra Streisand

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven. — Barbra Streisand

I want the best product for my audience, and if I don’t care 100%, who will? It’s my name, my likeness that goes out there. — Barbra Streisand

Thank God there were a couple of people in my life who said, ‘Go on, go on–you can do it! — Barbra Streisand

You have to live life in the moment and get the most out of it. — Barbra Streisand

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn’t taught the niceties of life. — Barbra Streisand

The dream–you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment. — Barbra Streisand

I have one son. Of everything I’ve done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you. — Barbra Streisand

I go by instinct–I don’t worry about experience. — Barbra Streisand

My mother had a great voice. Not like mine, not like my sister’s, not like my son’s–a high soprano voice, but like a bird. I mean, really beautiful. — Barbra Streisand

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father. — Barbra Streisand

Believe in the power of your voice! Be yourself. Everyone is unique. — Barbra Streisand

It’s very often the artist who gives a voice to the voiceless by speaking up when no one else will. — Barbra Streisand

I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something. — 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

New York critics–I hear when one of them watched ‘A Star Is Born’, he talked back to the screen. — Barbra Streisand

Being a celebrity is a no–win situation. If you get along with your co–star you’re having an affair, if you don’t you’re having a feud. — Barbra Streisand