Kelli O'Hara Quotes
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When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.
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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.
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It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy.
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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 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
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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.
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I'm proud to be Irish.
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With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.
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I've been singing since I was nine or ten.
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My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!
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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.
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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.
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I don't want to be famous for being famous.
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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!
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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.
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I don't have that many family and friends.
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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.
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I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.
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Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.
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I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.