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

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

" 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. "

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

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

" I grew up on a farm. "

" 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'm proud to be Irish. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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! "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "