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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'm proud to be Irish. "

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

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

" My degree was in opera. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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 grew up on a farm. "

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

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