Barbra Streisand

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Myths are a waste of time. They prevent progression.

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

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

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

Why is it men are permitted to be obsessed about their work, but women are only permitted to be obsessed about men?

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

I'm a work in progress.