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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" I grew up on a farm. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

" I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge. "

" 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. "

Life Is Beautiful

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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