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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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" 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. "

Kelli O'Hara

Life Is Beautiful

Beautiful

Life

" 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. "

Kelli O'Hara

Time

Loved

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

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I grew up on a farm. "

Kelli O'Hara

Farm

Grew

" 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. "

Kelli O'Hara

Singing

Family

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

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

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

" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

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

" I'm proud to be Irish. "

Kelli O'Hara

Proud

Irish

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My degree was in opera. "

Kelli O'Hara

Degree

Opera

" 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. "

" 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. "

Kelli O'Hara

Funny

Magic