Barbra Streisand

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. ”

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out. ”

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

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work. ”

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men? ”

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? ”

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

I'm a work in progress. ”