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" 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. "

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

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

" 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 grew up on a farm. "

" 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'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. "

" I'm proud to be Irish. "

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

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

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

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

" 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

" My degree was in opera. "

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

" 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'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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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