Top 313 Barbara Streisand Quotes & Sayings

Acting, musicals, bringing out an album - not many people have done that. Anthony Newley, Barbra Streisand?

Musically, I'm always inspired by the legends like Barbra Streisand.

I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

Barbra Streisand has accomplished so much, and Dustin Hoffman as well. They are down to earth and approachable. I admire that.

I only ever wanted to be Barbra Streisand.

I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara.

I will never be Barbra Streisand, but I have done an awful lot more than what I was sent out to be.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

Not even Barbra Streisand celebrates herself as tirelessly as golf celebrates itself.

I would trade many an art-film classic for the final exchange between Redford and Streisand in front of the Plaza.

I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.

I was a really camp child! In the 70s, an age of all these amazing musical subcultures, I was sitting in my living room singing to my dad's Streisand records.

I like to use the hyaluronic acid by Dr. Barbara Sturm.

Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

My real name is Barbara Klein and I'm from Sacramento.

Barbra Streisand, for one, is one of my idols. I've listened to her since I was a little kid - the first album I ever bought was 'A Star is Born' with Kris Kristofferson.

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase "family values" and I pride myself on never having fallen for the idea that Barbara Bush was sweet and grandmotherly. I met Barbara Bush and, as I expected, she was a tank with eyes, not a nice person at all and why should that blow anybody away?

On a personal level, as a Christian, it will not be Barbra Streisand I'm standing in front of when I have to make an accounting of my life.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.

I might as well be gay. And not just because I love rhinestones and Barbara Streisand. But because Im a sensitive person who is supportive of gay people the same way Im sensitive to grossly obese people and ugly people.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

As Barbara Streisand discovered, adopting a militaristic posture against a tech-savvy mob of civil libertarians is not going to be of much help: Many of them run their own servers and blogs - and have thousands of friends on their social networks - so overzealous attempts to silence them only lead to wider dissemination of sensitive information.

Barbra Streisand has always been an inspiration for me. I admire Jennifer Lopez because she's been against all the odds, and she's made such a name for herself, and she can put her name on anything and it sells, and I admire that about her, but Barbara Streisand and Woody Allen are my favorites.

Barbra Streisand did us all a great service when she didn't get her nose fixed.

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

I've been compared to so many people - Streisand, Celine - it doesn't bother me. Why worry about being compared to the best?

I like a little Barbra Streisand!

Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom.

I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn.

It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.

Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... they are the best.

Santa Barbara's gorgeous. It's just a perfect little getaway.

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.

There will be a Jussie Smollett album. I signed to Columbia. So, darling, I'm label mates with Beyonce and Adele and Barbra Streisand.

Barbara Feldon on 'Get Smart,' I wanted to be her.

I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

I don't want to be Oprah [Winfrey], I'm not trying to be Barbara Walters, but we can all do better.

I loved Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, and people like Barbara Streisand. The thing with me is that classical music was also an inspiration. I took piano lessons at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels for 10 years.

There are many artists I would like to have the honour to cooperate with. To accompany Barbara Streisand or Paul McCartney or Elton John would be a dream for me as I have a lot of admiration for their voice, their talent and their charisma.

I honestly think that it was when the actual voices started to stand up for me. It was the iconic artists like Tony Bennett or Barbara Streisand or Liza Minnelli. When people like that take you under their wing and say in quotations, "He's the next one. He's got my stamp of approval," people trust them.

For a long time I genuinely thought I'd be the next Streisand, so it was crushing to discover that I couldn't sing or act.

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

I started on the beach in Santa Barbara with my father when I was six.

I was lucky enough to make four pictures with Barbara. In the first I turned her in, in the second I killed her, in the third I left her for another woman, and in the fourth I pushed her over a waterfall. The one thing all these pictures had in common was that I fell in love with Barbara Stanwyck - and I did, too.

Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag.

The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Barbra Streisand, Bruce Springsteen, these are just some of the people who threatened to sue if we used their songs.

As a child, I would put on shows in my neighborhood with friends and perform Barbra Streisand songs for my classmates.

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

I learned by watching Judy Garland and Barbra Streisand.

Yeah, I've always liked Barbara Crane's stuff.