Barbra Streisand movie quotes

“- Yentl: I'd like this one, please.
- Bookseller: Sacred books are for men.
- Yentl: Why?
- Bookseller: It's the law.
- Yentl: Where's it written?
- Bookseller: It doesn't matter where it's written, it's the law.
- Yentl: Well if it's the law it must be written somewhere, perhaps in here. I'll take it.”

Barbra Streisand - Yentl
Jack Lynn - Bookseller

“- Claire: Your hair looks good, the curls work. Why don't you get a perm?
- Rose Morgan: I tried that once, I looked like Shirley Temple on crack.”
Mimi Rogers - Claire
Barbra Streisand - Rose Morgan

“Your girl is lovely, Hubbell.”
Barbra Streisand - Katie

“I know women who crawl through shit for a fur coat.”
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“- Dr. Herbert A. Morrison: Good. That's a step in the right direction. I would like to help you put your life back in order.
- Claudia Draper: Herbie, there is no order in life. Maybe you need order. Maybe that's why you're here. Behind bars. Makes you feel safe doesn't it?”
Eli Wallach - Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“I am talking about taking your body to heaven and sending your mind south. I'm talking about spoiling you so bad you'll hate every other woman you touch. I'm talking about my mouth on your mouth, and my tongue anywhere you want it. I'm talking about indulging your every fantasy, and then giving you those fantasies one by one. Just for you. All...” (continue)(continue reading)

Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“- Claudia Draper: Now, you talk to me and pretend I'm sane, okay?
- Aaron Levinsky: Okay.
- Claudia Draper: And I'll do the same for you.”
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper
Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Aaron Levinsky

“- Francis MacMillan: Did your husband leave you when you got pregnant?
- Claudia Draper: No, I had an abortion.
- Francis MacMillan: Why?
- Claudia Draper: I don't believe in childhood.”
Robert Webber - Francis MacMillan
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“- Rose Morgan: Look at me, I'm a grown woman in a prom dress.
- Claire: Oh, please. You look adorable.
- Rose Morgan: Adorable? I look like an over-the-hill Barbie Doll.”

Barbra Streisand - Rose Morgan
Mimi Rogers - Claire

“- Aaron Levinsky: You look wonderful.
- Claudia Draper: You know what I use this dress for? For the ones who want to sit on Mommy's lap.”

Richard Stephen Dreyfuss - Aaron Levinsky
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“- Dr. Herbert A. Morrison: You need treatment in order to control yourself.
- Claudia Draper: I'm in control, because right now I would like to ring your fucking neck! But I'm not going to.”
Eli Wallach - Dr. Herbert A. Morrison
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“- Susan Lowenstein: Just admit it. You love her more.
- Tom Wingo: No. Not more, Lowenstein. Only longer.”

Barbra Streisand - Susan Lowenstein
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo

“I don't trust people who can hurt me, not anymore.”

Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“When my date takes me home and kisses me good night, if I don't hear the philharmonic in my head, I dump him.”
Barbra Streisand - Rose Morgan

“- Tom Wingo: It's the Southern Way; when things get too painful, we either avoid them or we laugh.
- Susan Lownstein: When do you cry?
- Tom Wingo: We don't.”
Nick Nolte - Tom Wingo
Barbra Streisand - Susan Lowenstein

- Francis MacMillan: You believe that your mother wants to hurt you?
- Claudia Draper: She doesn't want to, but...
- Francis MacMillan: You don't believe she wants to help you?
- Claudia Draper: Sure she wants to help me. You all want to "help" me. Except for Harry. Harry doesn't give a shit.
Robert Webber - Francis MacMillan
Barbra Streisand - Claudia Draper

“I believe in love and lust and sex and romance. I don’t want everything to add up to some perfect equation. I want mess and chaos. I want someone to go crazy out of his mind for me. I want to feel passion and heat and sweat and madness. I want Valentines and Cupids and all the rest of that crap. I want it all.”
Barbra Streisand - Rose Morgan

“- Gregory Larkin: You don't use make-up, do you?
- Rose Morgan: What's the point? I'd still look like me, only in color.”
Jeff Bridges - Gregory Larkin
Barbra Streisand - Rose Morgan