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" I don't have that many family and friends. "

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

" Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table. "

" I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen. "

" There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person. "

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

" Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow. "

" When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things. "

" It's really important that I have a personal life. "

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

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

" I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work. "

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

" 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. "

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

" It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction. "

" I'm proud to be Irish. "

" I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge. "

" 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. "

" In my special place, room service could only consist of my husband making me a breakfast of eggs, avocados, and hummus. And coffee with milk. "

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

" 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. "

Life Is Beautiful

" When you're pregnant, things - at least for me - get very sincere and very wholesome, and it's about family, and singing becomes about warmth. "

" 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. "

" The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed. "

" To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character. "

" 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 grew up on a farm. "

" We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway. "

" My degree was in opera. "

" I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in. "