Kelli O'Hara Quotes
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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.
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I don't have that many family and friends.
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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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Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.
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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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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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By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.
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I grew up on a farm.
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Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.
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'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.
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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.
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I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.
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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.
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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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My degree was in opera.
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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.
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Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.
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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.
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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.
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I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
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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.
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To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.
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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.
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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.