Top 96 Quotes by Barbra Streisand

I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.

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

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 read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

I was kind of a wild child. I wasn't taught the niceties of life.

My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?