Barbra Streisand Quotes

If I was going onstage, of course I would talk about it. How could I not?

I've worked with leading men so worried about losing their charm that they were always winking to the audience.

Creative people are very insecure people because they don't know whether people like them or are in awe of them. That insecurity always comes out. It makes them a better actor, I feel.

At school, people would say I should go on 'Britain's Got Talent,' but I would never have done that because it doesn't seem genuine; it doesn't feel natural.

I was really kind of shy as a child. But I would do things for attention.

It's hard to talk about yourself onstage and be sincere about it.

When you're on stage, unless you surrender to the moment, you're not telling the truth. I look for people that tell me the truth.

I need an audience way more than an audience needs me.

I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

Why would anyone be an actor if he or she weren't insecure? That's why anybody pursues this kind of work.

When I'm on a stage, it's just me, singing a song with words that I wrote and I believe in. And if I don't believe in them anymore, I'll stop singing that song.

I have to sing it every night, I can't get up on stage if it's some bullshit story.

I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright.

Actors, by very definition, we want people to pay attention to us, and so usually, that comes in the package of insecurity. So if we're not comfortable, we don't really show you a lot.

There's something so naked about being on stage as a musician. I think about that even with standup comedy or something - like, 'This is it, this is what I got.'

When you first start out in stand-up and, probably, as any performer, you enjoy the attention so much, and even though that hasn't died down on stage, it certainly has satiated whatever was in me that was needing that much attention. When I'm off stage, it's not something that I really need.

What sometimes annoys me about the arts is increasingly that we have to put real people on screen or stage.

When a lot of people think about how to be business-savvy as an artist, they think about how to brand themselves. At the end of the day, that stuff doesn't really help you. People know when you're being fake.

I'm always the one sitting at the merch table and talking to everyone at the show - and I think it's because I have this deep fear that if I'm not approachable or I'm not there, people are going to think I'm a brat.

Whenever I go onstage or in front of a camera, I always want to pour my soul out because I know I have a lot to offer.

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

I want to say things on stage that I wouldn't have the guts to say in conversation.

I used to feel that if I wasn't living out my songs, I wasn't doing myself or my craft justice, and that's a dangerous way to live because then you become what you make.

You don't want to go and make something, then go out and do shows, if you're not really into it. You don't want to go out there and make people feel like you're grudging playing them a song. That's a disturbing thought.