100 Quotes by 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.

Sunday’s my favorite day – that one matinee in the middle of the day!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.