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I grew up on a farm.
My degree was in opera.
You breathe fast when you're scared.
I don't have that many family and friends.
I've been singing since I was nine or ten.
I don't want to be famous for being famous.
I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.
By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.
My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!
Every part has its relief when I'm done with it.
With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.
It's really important that I have a personal life.
You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.
Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.
Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!
My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.
If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.
To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.
Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.
I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.
The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.
I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.
When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.
One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy.
'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.
Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.
Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them 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.
If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.
I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.
Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.
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 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'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.
I try to do different roles and try to immerse myself deeply and see what they need to be that's different than the last one.
If a man thinks you're beautiful or thinks you're strong or thinks you're smart, take the power and use it, but don't need it.
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.
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.
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've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.
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.
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 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.
I'm an actress. I'm not putting my life on the line for any great cause. I don't step out too boldly about anything except my children and family.
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.
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.