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" I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play. "
Kelli O'Hara
Play
Wanted
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" My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas! "
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" I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act. "
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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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" 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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" Every part has its relief when I'm done with it. "
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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 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things. "
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" I'm proud to be Irish. "
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" My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish. "
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" I've been singing since I was nine or ten. "
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Favorite
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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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