A Quote by 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 remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
I want to do different kinds of roles and work on good scripts because doing the same kind of roles is boring - both for me and the audience.
The longer I've been doing this, the more I've realized that you have no idea what kinds of roles are possible for you - dream roles can take you by surprise. That being said, I need to play Hamlet one day. I'd also love to be in a play that I have written myself.
I enjoy doing all kinds of roles, but I don't want to be restricted to comedy alone.
I've always wanted to do all kinds of roles, dramatic roles and comedic roles, all kinds of roles.
For my own children, I do want for them to look back and remember that it was me in the kitchen, that I was doing the packed lunches, that we were there on the school run, that we did take a bus. I want them to remember those things, because those are the things that I remember from my own childhood and that have been incredibly important to me.
I remember growing up and feeling like I didn't really see much of myself represented. Or if I did, there were only a few types of roles that had authority.
Without producing, no man can love, nor can he understand or remember, nor have the power of feeling and being.
I am feeling like I have completed the circle. I started with serious roles, done a grey shaded role, did fatherly roles and now a comedy.
I don't want to be in a position where I'm playing roles I'm comfortable with and making money, but doing it without feeling like I'm growing.
I can't believe I've been doing it so long. In the last three or four years, I've slowed down. I'm doing only the roles I really want to do.
I understand that, being born with a certain face, people want to see me in certain roles. But one needs to break that image by doing different kinds of films.
I did this film called 'Prom.' It was a Disney movie. And at that point, I didn't know what the hell I was doing. I had no idea how to act. It was purely instinctual. I just remember the first scene I did and the first take, it feeling so right.
I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.
The idea is to choose good roles and good movies. I don't want to act simply to remain in the industry, nor am I here to do glamour roles.
I think the roles in television are better for women right now. At this point, I don't want to continue doing the same things I've been doing in film because it's very limited.
In 8th grade I started doing theatre and I remember it was as though I had taken a trip to a foreign land that I had never seen before yet felt completely at home. I remember feeling a genuine wave of happiness and of feeling complete.
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