Barbara Cook

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

— Barbara Cook

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

— Barbara Cook

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

— Barbara Cook

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

— 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…

— Barbara Cook

What actors need to do is to find a way to show people their despair, their joy, their pain, their exhilaration. All…

— Barbara Cook

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

— 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.…

— 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,…

— Barbara Cook

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

— Barbara Cook

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to…

— 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

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

— Barbara Cook