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Kelli O Hara Inspirational Quotes (20)

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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.
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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.
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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.
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When doing a revival, you have a lot of people asking you questions about someone who played it before, and to me that's neither here nor there - it has no bearing on the material that I have to use. The material that is written down in a score and script that the writers originally used is what I use.
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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.
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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.
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You can only ask to be respected if you respect yourself.
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Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day!
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If you act brave, you can seem brave, and if you do it enough, you can talk yourself into believing you're brave.
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In this particular business [cinema], you don't choose your own experiences. They start to happen and then they start to peel off and make other ones happen, and then you can start choosing. But it happens to you.
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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.
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I loved to sing and I loved to act, and I didn’t want to continue opera because I wanted to act.
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If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them.
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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.
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By no means, I can't sing any rock and roll.
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American theatre, to me, represents zeroing down on what the need is to get inside the personal hearts of people. I think it's really beautiful if we can keep doing that instead of just fluffing everything up and hiding again.
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Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it.
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I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.
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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.
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Sometimes I'm considered, I guess, a subtle actor. Maybe I'm less of a showman and more just trying to tell the story. I don't know what the perception is. I just want to tell the story so the story as a whole works as opposed to just making sure that I work.
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