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" 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. "

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" I've been singing since I was nine or ten. "

" My degree was in opera. "

" By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll. "

" I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I think anything emotional adds to your acting and singing, no matter what it is that you go through. It will always add to it, never take away. "

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

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

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

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

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

" 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 grew up on a farm. "

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

" 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 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

" 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. "

" Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character. "

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

" 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. "

" My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming. "

" 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. "