Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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

" My degree was in opera. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 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 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. "

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

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

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

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

" I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two. "