100 Quotes by Kelli O'Hara

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

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 don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

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.

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.

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.

When I was a kid, I would sing in people's living rooms and for different little family things.

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.

With a revival, you're compared to somebody else.