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" 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. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

" 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'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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" I'm proud to be Irish. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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 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 think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards. "

" 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. "

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

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