Quotes from Kelli O'Hara

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.

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

My degree was in opera.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 don't want to be famous for being famous.