Barbara Cook on dancer
Barbara Cook12 quotes“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.”
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Barbara CookBarbara Cook I have absolutely no desire and no thought of quitting ever.
Barbara CookBarbara Cook Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
Barbara CookBarbara 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 CookBarbara 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 CookBarbara Cook The world wants us to be who we truly are, not who we think others want us to be.
Barbara CookBarbara 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. It’s, you know, it’s addiction.
Barbara CookBarbara 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 courage.
Barbara CookBarbara Cook 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 CookBarbara Cook I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
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Bebe NeuwirthBebe Neuwirth I can act. I can sing. But I am a dancer
Bebe NeuwirthBebe Neuwirth If haters hadn’t made me angry and made me practice, I wouldn’t have gotten this good.
BebeBebe It’s no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, ‘Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.’ By then, pigs will be your style.
Quentin CrispQuentin Crisp I was a street dancer.
Eartha KittEartha Kitt They shouldn’t make the departure of a dancer so tear jerky because nobody’s going to war.
Mr. TMr. T All due respect, and trying to be as modest as I can be: I am a dancer.
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