Kelli O'Hara Quotes
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I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.
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Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.
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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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When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.
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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.
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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 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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My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
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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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It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy.
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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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I've been singing since I was nine or ten.
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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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My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!
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I'm proud to be Irish.
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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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I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.
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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 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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With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.
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The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
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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.
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It's really important that I have a personal life.