Barbra Streisand Quotes

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

I cannot be anyone else but Memphis. I tried that, and I was not happy with myself.

It is not pride when the beech-tree refuses to copy the oak. He knows his limitations. The only chance of any healthy life for him is to be as full a beech-tree as he can.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I think that more and more there's a sense that the best performances I can give are the ones that are the truest to who I am. The further I move away from who I am, the worse they are.

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I'm trying to be honest about who I am, and that's not always nice. I'm not always the world's cheerleader.

Learn what you are and be such.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Figure out who you are.

The world can't tell you who you are. You've just got to figure out who you are and be there, for better or worse.

I didn't want to make cinema so a person forgets himself and has a lot of fun. 'I forget myself, I am a little poor consumer.' I wanted to make a picture where someone who sees it say, 'This is me! This is me!'

I'm undeniably myself, and I think realizing that is the way to live life.

I gotta be who I am now. How do you not, right?

You're always just going to be who you are.

I want people to see just who I am.

I'm trying to know who I am and be honest about it.

'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.

I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

If you keep changing for every person who tells you to, then who's going to be left? Why get the success and be somebody else?

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me. I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or a chisel to remind you of your me-ness, as I discover you in myself.

The greatest discovery in life is self-discovery. Until you find yourself you will always be someone else. Become yourself.

I’ve always thought you are what you are and you shouldn’t pretend to be anyone else. But Oliver used to correct me and explain that you are whoever it is you’re pretending to be.

If you knew who God made you to be, you'd never want to be anyone else.