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Kelli O'Hara [1976-0] American

Rank: 101
Actress

Kelli Christine O'Hara is an American actress and singer. She has appeared on Broadway and Off-Broadway in many musicals since making her Broadway debut as a replacement in Jekyll & Hyde in 2000.

Family, Famous, Inspirational, Mom

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My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!	Family, Mom	101
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.		102
The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.		103
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.		104
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.	Inspirational	105
I'm proud to be Irish.		106
Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.		107
I don't want to be famous for being famous.	Famous	108
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.		109
By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.		110
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.		111
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.		112
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.		113
'South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.		114
My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish.		115
I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.		116
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.		117
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.		118
I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad.		119
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.		120
I don't have that many family and friends.		121
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.		122
I've been singing since I was nine or ten.		123
I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.		124
Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.		125
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.		126
I grew up on a farm.		201
My degree was in opera.		202
It's really important that I have a personal life.		203
To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.		204
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.		205
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.		206
It's always hard - it's a little counterintuitive to leave your baby at any point during the infancy.		207
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.		208
Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.		209
Every part has its relief when I'm done with it.		210
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.		211
When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.		212
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.		213
I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that.		214
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.		215
I never really try to watch the movie of the things I've been in.		216
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.		217
I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play.		218
You breathe fast when you're scared.		219
Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.		220
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.		221
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.		222
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.		223
With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.		224
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!		225
I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.		226

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