Barbra Streisand

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all.

Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each one.

I am simple complex generous selfish unattractive beautiful lazy and driven.

Oh God don't envy me I have my own pains.

I go by instinct. ... I don't worry about experience.

I am also very proud to be a liberal. Why is that so terrible these days? The liberals were liberatorsthey fought slavery, fought for women to have the right to vote, fought against Hitler, Stalin, fought to end segregation, fought to end apartheid. Liberals put an end to child labor and they gave us the five day work week! What's to be ashamed of?

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.