Kelli O'Hara

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.

I've always wanted my characters to have more dimension and realistic cores than the ingenue material often provides. It's been a challenge.

In my special place, room service could only consist of my husband making me a breakfast of eggs, avocados, and hummus. And coffee with milk.

When I've done TV and film, when it's offered to me, I loved doing it, and I would do it again, but the ins and outs of auditioning is - that's time away from my kids.

Everyone's story is different, and we can't really be inside them.

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

You breathe fast when you're scared.

I'm proud to be Irish.

South Pacific' has a definite heaviness that people don't realize. It's got a seriousness and a message.

Every part has its relief when I'm done with it.

Everyone has these ideas, especially about the middle of the country, about people being backwards and three-toothed.

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