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" You breathe fast when you're scared. "

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" I'm proud to be Irish. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I don't have that many family and friends. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "