Dolly Levi:
[singing] It takes a woman to quietly plan to take him and change him to her kind of man and to gently lead him where fortune can find him and not let him know that the power behind him was that dainty woman, that fragile woman, that sweetheart, that mistress, that wife.
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Dolly Levi:
And on those cold winter nights, Horace, you can snuggle up to your cash register. It's a little lumpy, but it rings!
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Dolly Levi:
As my late husband, Ephraim Levi, used to say, 'If you have to live from hand-to-mouth, you'd better be ambidextrous.'
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Dolly Levi:
Goodness, the whole room is crawling with men. Irene, my dear, congratulations.
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Dolly Levi:
Hello! Hello there, how are you? Oh Hello!
Horace: You know too many people.
Dolly Levi: Total strangers!
Horace: Then why do you greet them?
Dolly Levi: It makes me feel good to have so many friends.
Horace: Oh, say hello for me too then.
Dolly Levi: I already did.
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Horace: You know too many people.
Dolly Levi: Total strangers!
Horace: Then why do you greet them?
Dolly Levi: It makes me feel good to have so many friends.
Horace: Oh, say hello for me too then.
Dolly Levi: I already did.
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Dolly Levi:
Here, let me cut your wings!
Horace: I don't want my wings cut!
Dolly Levi: No man does, Horace, no man does.
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Horace: I don't want my wings cut!
Dolly Levi: No man does, Horace, no man does.
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Dolly Levi:
Money, pardon the expression, is like manure. It's not worth a thing unless it's spread around, encouraging young things to grow.
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Dolly Levi:
Mr. Kemper, do you mind if we go inside? I'm feeling an updraft in my underpants!
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
--Barbra Streisand (as Dolly Levi) in Hello Dolly!
Fanny Brice:
"No law against waiting," I said, "people do it all the time." For once, I didn't say too much, I didn't say too little, I said just what I said and then walked.
--Barbra Streisand (as Fanny Brice) in Funny Girl
--Barbra Streisand (as Fanny Brice) in Funny Girl
Fanny Brice:
[singing] Life's candy and the sun's a ball of butter.
--Barbra Streisand (as Fanny Brice) in Funny Girl
--Barbra Streisand (as Fanny Brice) in Funny Girl
