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" 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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" 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. "

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

" 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 read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad. "

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

" 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'm proud to be Irish. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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

" 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. "

" I grew up on a farm. "

" 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 to play things that are out-of-the-box. It's just that I don't always get the chance to do it! "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "