Barbara Cook Quotes

The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

I dreaded having a boring life when I grew up. And I certainly can't complain about being bored.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone.

I always hated being a child. I always felt like an adult trapped in a child's body.

The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation..

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

Next year, if no one gives me any work, that's fine. I'm not going to do well anyway. I'm not an actor, I'm just exploiting this industry.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

I have an enormous sense of having failed in life.

My childhood is always going to limit me.

So many times, I have a speech ready but no dice. Always a bridesmaid, never a mother.

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

I think you always have regrets.

I sometimes fall into the trap of doing what I think I should be doing rather than what I want to be doing.

My old life - no amount of getting used to it would have made it right.

I hated my work. It never seemed to me to be what I should be doing.

In Fall Out Boy, I noticed that I wasn't putting all that much soul into it. It was just kind of screaming, I guess. I was just dying to get out of there!

I don't want to go all Michael Jackson on you, but I never really had a childhood.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.