Barbra Streisand

“I got sent to a health camp when I was about 6 years old, and we all had to wear the same starchy blue uniform. The lady who took care of me after school knit me a burgundy sweater. It was the only thing that gave me any individuality.”

“When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.”

“I just don't want to be hampered by my own limitations.”

“I started going to acting school when I was 14, and I would always have my own take on things.”

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

“I'm sure that I don't know everything I want to know. I have so much more to learn.”

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

“In the music business, we all do different things, but we sit there and admire other people who can write a song differently or sing differently. It's not so competitive.”

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

“I'll see a celadon green room in an 18th century New Hampshire house and just fall in love. Colors stay in my head.”

“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.”

“I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.”

“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'm not that ambitious any more. I just like my privacy. I wish I really wasn't talked about at all.”

“My mother never really thought I could become anything.”

“My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.”

“I don't enjoy public performances and being up on a stage. I don't enjoy the glamour. Like tonight, I am up on stage and my feet hurt.”

“We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.”

“I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.”

“What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.”