Kelli O'Hara

I feel so rich in my emotions and in my life and so grateful when I'm home and so grateful when I'm at work.

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.

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.

My mom's side of the family is from Arkansas!

I don't have that many family and friends.

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.

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

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.

Some songs depend heavily on the character, but, for the most part, a great song begs for reinterpretation every time it is sung, even when in character.

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

I don't mind talking about my family and how to balance it all. But, in today's world, we should probably be asking both women and men about work and family and how to balance the two.

There is such a cliche to certain roles that all I can do is to try to make them realistic and work for the times, and so the audience actually won't see me as a caricature of something, but rather as an actual person.