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 th…

- 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

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

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…

- Barbara Cook

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

- 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 militar…

- Barbara Cook

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

- Barbara Cook

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

- Barbara Cook