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" When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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'm proud to be Irish. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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