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" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Me
Service
Husband
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" Every part has its relief when I'm done with it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Farm
" I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge. "
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Challenge
Been
Always
" By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll. "
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Rock And Roll
Means
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" 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. "
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Know
Good
Door
" I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play. "
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Play
Wanted
Shakespeare
" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Stand
Fall
Mean
" I'm proud to be Irish. "
Kelli O'Hara
Proud
Irish
" The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. "
Kelli O'Hara
Favorite
Music
Always
" I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad. "
Kelli O'Hara
Believe
Read
Because
" Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table. "
Kelli O'Hara
Holiday
Favorite
Table
" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Myself
Great
Challenge
" I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that. "
Kelli O'Hara
Doing
Continue
Playing
" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Women
Today
Work
" My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish. "
Kelli O'Hara
Irish
Named
Me
" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Book
Luxury
Inspirational
" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
See
Work
I Can
" With a revival, you're compared to somebody else. "
Kelli O'Hara
Revival
Else
Compared
" You breathe fast when you're scared. "
Kelli O'Hara
You
Breathe
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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Life Is Beautiful
Beautiful
Life
" I've been singing since I was nine or ten. "
Kelli O'Hara
Been
Since
Nine
" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Light
Shoes
Night
" It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy. "
Kelli O'Hara
Hard
Baby
Point
" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Character
Depend
Great
" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Grateful
Work
My Life
" I don't have that many family and friends. "
Kelli O'Hara
Friends
Family
Many
" Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them. "
Kelli O'Hara
Them
Different
Everyone
" 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. "
Kelli O'Hara
Believe
Generation
Father