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

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" I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My degree was in opera. "

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

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

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

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

" 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. "