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

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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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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'm proud to be Irish. "

" When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things. "

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

" 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music. "

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

" My degree was in opera. "

" 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! "

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