100 Quotes by Kelli O'Hara

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I love feeling like I have purpose and maybe that’s the purpose I’m giving myself.

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.

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.