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" I grew up on a farm. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" My degree was in opera. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I was able to do concerts all the way up until two weeks before I had the baby; I thought I was stopping a month ahead, but he was three weeks early. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

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

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