The best Quotes by Barbra Streisand

It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

I can take any truth; just don't lie to me.

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

There is nothing more important in life than love.

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.

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

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

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Beauty has a lot to do with character.

Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

Another thing that's pathetic is this rule that you have to look ugly to get respect as an actress. Jessica Lange had to make herself look really bad to prove that she had amazing talent.

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. What women like is to be a man's last romance.

Here are a few fun facts about Long Island... Number 1: It's Brooklyn's fart-trail.

Caroline: "No need to yell, he's a champion."
Max: "Champion stink bomb. It's smelling pretty ripe out in that yard."
Caroline: "That's not Chestnut, that's Brooklyn."
Max: "Okay, well, I'm watching 'The Champion' drop some steaming hot 'Brooklyn' right now."

For the soul, laughing is what oxygen is for the lungs.

Stop that! I'm your boss...- uhm: husband!

It's not about the absence of fear. It's overcoming it.

What gets scary is when your self-worth is tied up in what strangers think of you.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.

My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I don't know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

My father always said, "Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf" - so I make sure I read.

I came out of my mum's stomach going, "I want to be an actor!"

We think too much and feel too little.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life.

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real.

I only drink with people I like. When meeting people I don't like, I drink right before.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

Hair loss is God's way of telling me I'm human.

I dream of a day where I walk down the street and hear people talk about Morality, Sustainibility and Philoshophy instead of the Kardashians.

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

Vanity is my favourite sin.

I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.

Anyone who tells you money can't buy happiness never had any.

You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see. But you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel.