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" Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed. "

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" I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act. "

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" My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas! "

" I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it. "

" I grew up on a farm. "

" If I get tickled in a certain way, I actually lose the ability to stand. I don't mean to, but something happens to my knees, and I fall on the ground. "

" I'm a mother, and when you have children, there's a protection. You'll do a lot to protect them, to do what's best for them. "

" I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that. "

" My degree was in opera. "

" The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. "

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" With a revival, you're compared to somebody else. "

" I think it can be a good idea to know what you do well and use that to open the door for yourself. Once you open the door, close it behind you, and start to make changes. "

" I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful. "

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" I don't want to be famous for being famous. "

" Every part has its relief when I'm done with it. "

" I love to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it! "

" Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them. "

" My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish. "

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" I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually. "

" Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature. "

" When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids. "

" When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions become necessary, when they aren't camp, that, to me, is magic. I've done musical comedies and enjoyed them, but subject matter that's deeper and more realistic is always what's appealed to me most. "

" It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy. "