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" 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. "

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" My degree was in opera. "

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

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 grew up on a farm. "

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" I don't want to be famous for being famous. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "