Kelli O'Hara Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.

I don't want to be famous for being famous.