Barbara Cook famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Being Yourself #Essence #Competition
If youâ€™re happy, you eat. If youâ€™re sad, you eat. You lose a job, you eat. You get a job, you eat. Itâ€™s, you know, itâ€™s addiction,
-- Barbara Cook

#Jobs #Addiction
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

#Military #Afternoon #Four
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

#Thinking #Firsts #My Family
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

#Thinking #Years #Doe
The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.
-- Barbara Cook

#Teacher #Thinking #World
I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
-- Barbara Cook

#Desire #Quitting
Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
-- Barbara Cook

#People #Starting Over #Needs
The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.
-- Barbara Cook

#Lying #Safety #Dangerous
I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
-- Barbara Cook

#Looks #Remember #Photograph
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

#New Year #Years #Symphony

You may also like:

Audra McDonald
Actress
Barry Manilow
Singer-songwriter
Bernadette Peters
Actress
Betty Buckley
Film actress
Carol Channing
Comedian
Chita Rivera
Actress
Elaine Stritch
Actress
Harold Prince
Theatrical producer
John Raitt
Actor
Laura Osnes
Actress
Lee Remick
Film actress
Leonard Bernstein
Composer
Meredith Willson
Composer
Michael Feinstein
Singer
Patti LuPone
Actress
Robert Preston
Film actor
Stephen Sondheim
Composer
Sutton Foster
Film actress
Theodore Bikel
Actor
Sheldon Harnick
Lyricist