Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Barbra Streisand (American Musician)

Barbra Streisand (b.1942,) originally Barbara Joan Streisand, is an American singer, actress, and film director. One of the icons of American cinema and popular culture, this winner of two Oscars and eight Golden Globes has been performing and singing on the stage, television, and in motion pictures, as well as recording popular music for over three decades.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Streisand began her career after winning an amateur Greenwich Village nightclub competition. She gained instant acclaim and a New York Critics Award for her Broadway début I Can Get It For You Wholesale (1962.)

Streisand became a star in 1964 in the Broadway musical Funny Girl and won an Oscar for best actress for her performance in the film adaptation Funny Girl (1968.) Hello Dolly! (1969) and On A Clear Day You Can See Forever (1970) were filmed musicals. She received a special Broadway Tony Award in 1970 as ‘actress of the decade.’ Her notable non-musical films include The Owl and the Pussycat (1970) and What’s Up Doc? (1972.)

Streisand later played the lead in A Star is Born (1976;) the film’s song ‘Evergreen,’ composed by Streisand, won an Oscar. With Yentl (1983,) Streisand became the first woman to co-write, produce, direct, and lead in a motion picture. The Prince of Tides (1991,) which she directed, was nominated for seven Academy Awards.

Streisand is noted for her outspokenness, liberal politics, and philanthropy. The Broadway theater manager and biographer Tom Santopietro wrote The Importance of Being Barbra (2006.)

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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
Topics: Audiences

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.
—Barbra Streisand

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.
—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
Topics: Marriage

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.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Work, Discovery, Self-trust

I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Personality

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Success, Eating, Success & Failure

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
Topics: Fame

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
Topics: AIDS

I have learned about opening the heart, being more understanding, more loving, kinder.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Kindness

I go by instinct … I don’t worry about experience.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Instincts

I can say, I am terribly frightened and fear is terrible and awful and it makes me uncomfortable, so I won’t do that because it makes me uncomfortable. Or I could say get used to being uncomfortable. It is uncomfortable doing something that’s risky. But so what? Do you want to stagnate and just be comfortable?
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Fear

Oh God, don’t envy me, I have my own pains.
—Barbra Streisand
Topics: Opportunities, Reality

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
Topics: Commitment

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