Words matter. These are the best Kelli O’Hara Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m proud to be Irish.
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.
Corned beef and cabbage – that’s our favorite holiday meal when all the O’ Haras gather around the table.
I grew up on a farm.
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.
By no means, I can’t sing any rock and roll.
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.
It’s really important that I have a personal life.
To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’ve always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It’s been a challenge.
Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.
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.
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.
You breathe fast when you’re scared.
I don’t want to be famous for being famous.
