Barbra Streisand Quotes

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

I know that I am what I am. But I am not sure what I am.

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

We are, all of us, incoherent text, and just knowing that - knowing that no matter how much you say, 'I am this' and part of you is not that - means that you can say it.

The woman who made those movies, that's not me. She's someone else.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

I don't think it's about entertainment. I think it's about being ourselves.

Transcendence constitutes selfhood.

The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

You're always trying to balance your understanding of who you are and what you need, and your longing and imaginings of freedom.

You're looking at a different me than I'm looking at.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

The core of my personality consists of many selves.

Chloe is really just like an exaggerated aspect of myself.

To get what you want out of life, all you can really do is find out who you are, and do that.

I come out of real life.

If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.