Top 52 Quotes by Kelli O'Hara

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table.

I've been singing since I was nine or ten.

I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn't want to continue opera because I wanted to act.

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.

My degree was in opera.

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.

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

I don't have that many family and friends.

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.