1.
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.
Barbara Cook
5.
The place that seems most dangerous is exactly where safety lies.
Barbara Cook
6.
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
7.
I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
Barbara Cook
8.
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
9.
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
10.
Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
Barbara Cook
11.
I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
Barbara Cook
12.
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
