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Kelli O'Hara

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Actress

Kelli O'Hara is an accomplished American actress, renowned for her performances in Broadway musicals. Born on April 16, 1976, she embarked on her career in 1998 and has since won numerous awards for her roles in various musicals.

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“I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.”

Feels Mean Rooms Laughing Directors Comfortable Musical Dressings Homecoming Dressing Rooms

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!”

Middle My Favorite Sunday Favorite Day

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“When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me that's neither here nor there - it has no bearing on the material that I have to use. The material that is written down in a score and script that the writers originally used is what I use.”

People Use Used Written Materials Asking Scripts Score Revival

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“Your Western ideas about love are ridiculous. A woman is put on earth to please a man and a man should have many women, and a woman should only have one man.”

Men Should Ideas Earth Please Should Have Western Ridiculous One Man

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“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.”

Needs Trying Different Lasts Roles

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“Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.”

People Thinking Sometimes Roles

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“Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the perception is. I just want to tell the story so the story as a whole works as opposed to just making sure that I work.”

Knows Want Trying Sometimes Whole Stories Actors Perception Subtle

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.”

Thinking Want Reason Life Is Choices Can Do Forgiving Vulnerable Wrong Things Forgive Yourself

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I do always try to find the goodness in somebody. I can't possibly believe in somebody if they don't have a core.”

Ifs Trying Believe I Can Goodness Core

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“My spiritual life is an interesting thing. It's pretty private. I was raised Catholic in the Baptist Bible belt, so my spirituality was challenged and very much a private thing and it continues to be.”

Spiritual Life Is Spirituality Interesting Catholic Raised Spiritual Life Belts Interesting Things Baptists Private Things

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to.”

Believe Greater One Thing Grateful Be Grateful

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.”

Happens Particular Cinema

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that's the purpose I'm giving myself.”

Giving Feelings Purpose Love Feeling

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“When I'm given an opportunity with music and goodness, then I want to do that [play that role]. I want to go all the way to the edge of that and make it as big as I can.”

Way Want I Can Play Bigs Opportunity Given Roles Goodness Edges

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really beautiful if we can keep doing that instead of just fluffing everything up and hiding again.”

People Ifs Thinking Needs Heart Beautiful Theatre Hiding Really Beautiful

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.”

Thinking Way Needs Trying Mind Whole Quiet Whole Life Melody Quiet Time

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.”

Ifs Kids Opinion Priorities

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“I want to work, but I certainly am not going to be clawing at empty things when I can completely fill up my bucket with them - the other is a waste of my time.”

Want I Can Waste Empty My Time Buckets Wasting My Time

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"”

Thinking Way Mean Littles Different Bits Parent Realizing Natural Break Little Bit Like Me Our Family Things To Do Natural Things

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I think a lot of the way I live my life is not just for me, which has sometimes been a burden. A lot of the choices I make are in order to make them [my parents] proud.”

Thinking Way Sometimes Life Is Order Choices Parent Proud Burden Living My Life I Live My Life

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.”

People Way Feels Has Beens Hard Feelings Choices Grateful Very Happy Right Road

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I think in this business [acting] there's the option to do a lot of things and say, "I don't care. I'm just going to do what I want," but what I do affects a lot of people.”

People Thinking Want Care Acting Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“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.”

Ifs Thinking Men Needs Use Beautiful Strong Smart You Re Beautiful

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I know I've been treated like a woman in this business [acting]. I mean I've got lots of stories, but they don't have any control over me.”

People Knows Heart Mean Stories Acting My Heart Victim Treated

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“A lot of what is famous about film making are the movie stars and what is considered a movie star is a lot of great acting, but also a lot of physical beauty.”

Film Stars Acting Movie Star Physical Beauty

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.”

Ifs Asks Respect Yourself

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“If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.”

Ifs Believe Enough Seems Brave

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“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.”

Children Causes Lines Steps Actresses My Children

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“You always want to be the person who doesn't need to be included, but it feels damn good to be among you people. My first Broadway show was Master Class, and I saw Audra McDonald. The one that sealed the deal was Ragtime, with Marin Mazzie. My first big role was with John Lithgow, and he taught me the ropes. Norm Lewis sang the night I met my husband. It makes me feel like I have a family.”

People Want Needs Feels Firsts Persons Shows Bigs Night Deals Class Roles Saws Taught Masters Mets Husband Damn My Husband Norm Broadway Rope Mcdonalds Broadway Shows Damn Good Ragtime

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“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.”

Singing Sincere Warmth Pregnant About Family

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“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.”

Sides Born Cities Grew Dad Grew Up Towns West Raised My Dad Farms Small Town Oklahoma West Side Elk Tulsa

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.”

Want Wanted Opera

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

Ten Singing Nine

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“By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.”

Mean I Can Rocks Rock And Roll

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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.”

Reason Beautiful Life Is Bitter Reason Why Sarcastic Jaded Life Is Beautiful

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“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.”

Thinking Matter Acting Emotional Singing No Matter What Add

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About the Author

Born: April 16, 1976
Known for: Actress
Quotes: 36

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