"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 go by instinct - I don't worry about experience."
Barbra Streisand"What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other."
Barbra Streisand"Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice."
Barbra Streisand"You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it."
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"A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion."
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"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