Latest Kelli O'Hara Quotes from Interviews

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• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Children, Lines, Causes

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Kelli O'Hara

  Believe, Brave, Enough

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Stars, Acting, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

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  Respect Yourself, Asks, Ifs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I'm not a victim. And the people who are victims of something, my heart is completely with them. But I'm not. I know I've been treated like a woman in this business [acting]. I mean I've got lots of stories, but they don't have any control over me.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Heart, Mean, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Thinking, People, Acting

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Beautiful, Strong, Smart

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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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  Thinking, Order, Choices

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Grateful, People, Choices

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• Our natural thing to do when we break away from our parents and our family is to decide in how many ways they were wrong and bad, and the older you get you start to realize, "By 'bad' I mean 'different'" and then you get a little bit older and you think, "And by 'different' I mean 'pretty awesome but just not like me.'"

  Kelli O'Hara

  Mean, Thinking, Parent

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Kelli O'Hara

  Kids, Priorities, Opinion

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Buckets, Want, Waste

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• I'm trying to think of myself at a quiet time. I need to do better with a quiet mind because I'm constantly going and I think that's what feeds me. I've been that way my whole life. But I don't think I picture things so much as I talk them through. Words, words, words. Words and melody.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Thinking, Mind, Trying

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Opportunity, Play, Way

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Beautiful, Heart, Thinking

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

  Kelli O'Hara

  Giving, Feelings, Purpose

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

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  Believe, Grateful, Greater

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Cinema, Particular, Happens

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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

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  Believe, Trying, Goodness

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Spiritual, Interesting, Catholic

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Perception, Trying, Stories

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Thinking, Choices, Forgiving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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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  Thinking, People, Roles

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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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  Trying, Different, Needs

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

• 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.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Men, Should Have, Ideas

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com