Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Barbara Cook

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Barbara Cook.

Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Barbara Cook was an American actress and singer who first came to prominence in the 1950s as the lead in the original Broadway musicals Plain and Fancy (1955), Candide (1956) and The Music Man (1957) among others, winning a Tony Award for the last. She continued performing mostly in theatre until the mid-1970s, when she began a second career as a cabaret and concert singer. She also made numerous recordings.

American - Musician | Born: October 25, 1927

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I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.

Barbara Cook

Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.

Barbara Cook

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

Barbara Cook

On Saturday afternoons, there was a film, of course, and then we did about four shows between the films. And I would do a tap dance, a little military tap.

Barbara Cook

New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

Barbara Cook

I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

Barbara Cook

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

Barbara Cook

I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.

Barbara Cook

What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All of these deep, deep emotional things - good and bad - so that if you're able to do that, then there's a kind of resonance that happens.

Barbara Cook

The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.

Barbara Cook

If you're happy, you eat. If you're sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. It's, you know, it's addiction.

Barbara Cook

If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence.

Barbara Cook

The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.

Barbara Cook