Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" I'm proud to be Irish. "

Related Quotes:

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 grew up on a farm. "

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

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

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

" My degree was in opera. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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