Kelli Quotes & Sayings

Yes, it hurts to fall
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working. — Kelli Russell Agodon

I've never seen Salisbury steak on a restaurant menu. It's only in frozen dinners. Is there something we should know about that? What IS Salisbury steak anyway? And where do they hunt or harvest the salisburies? — Kelli Jae Baeli

One thing I really, truly believe in is having something greater than myself to be grateful to. — Kelli O'Hara

I love that time when all you want to do is cocoon with your baby in your own little world, when you carry them around all the time in a little pouch or sling. — Kelli Williams

I've had great opportunities to show different sides of myself, but the challenge will always be getting either people to let you do it or finding the right things to do in order to do it. — Kelli O'Hara

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic. — Kelli Jae Baeli

Real life, raising kids and trying to raise them to be good people takes a lot of work. It's all about (appearing) effortless, yet there's so much effort. You do it the best you can. — Kelli Williams

I know that dancers, especially ballet dancers, can't do it forever. — Kelli Berglund

I love Demi Lovato's style. It's really different, but it's super chic and has a cool edge to it. I'm always trying to channel her style when going shopping for new clothes or getting dressed in the morning. — Kelli Berglund

I think it'd be the coolest thing if I could get a role in a dance movie. That's something I'm always going to love. — Kelli Berglund

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. — Kelli O'Hara

I've been singing since I was nine or ten. — Kelli O'Hara

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

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper
hats, new couples falling from couches and love-
seats - the pleasure remembered,
never the regret. — Kelli Russell Agodon

people sometimes do bad things because they are hurting, not because they are bad people. — Kelli Jae Baeli

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

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

To play a character is to inhabit the world and the life of that character. — Kelli O'Hara

Every part has its relief when I'm done with it. — Kelli O'Hara

We must live with our hearts
in our hands - like Mary.
We must hold the blood-
red heart and no be disappointed
when others look away. — Kelli Russell Agodon

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

In the corner of the painting of success
the signature is blurred — Kelli Russell Agodon

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. — Kelli O'Hara

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. — Kelli O'Hara

I would love to work with Kristin Wiig one day. I find her hilarious, and I totally idolize her. — Kelli Berglund

Be what lights up the dark — Kelli Crockett

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

It's a luxury being able to work every day in the streets of Manhattan. It doesn't get much cooler than that. When you move to New York, that's exactly what you dream of. And I'm doing it. — Kelli Giddish

If I say I do not believe in faeries or elves or trolls, does this imply that I have a set of beliefs and a lifestyle that adheres to this lack of belief? NO, IT ONLY IMPLIES that I do not believe in faeries, elves and trolls. So one cannot extrapolate morality, philosophy, cosmology, character, political party, or any other thing of that sort from the mere lack of belief in one other thing. — Kelli Jae Baeli

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

I had a great chemistry teacher and found it really interesting to learn how things are made up and how they work. — Kelli Berglund

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen. — Kelli O'Hara

Love isn't real. Love is what people say to you so they can keep fucking you. So they can keep your interest. I don't want lies. I want my ass slapped. My hair pulled, and treated like a little whore. — Scott Hildreth

You always want to be the person who doesn't need to be included, but it feels damn good to be among you people. My first Broadway show was Master Class, and I saw Audra McDonald. The one that sealed the deal was Ragtime, with Marin Mazzie. My first big role was with John Lithgow, and he taught me the ropes. Norm Lewis sang the night I met my husband. It makes me feel like I have a family. — Kelli O'Hara

Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you. — Kelli Garner

Progress should never be impeded by a need to coddle adults who respond to the world as children. — Kelli Jae Baeli

Sometimes I think people are famous because they're themselves and they do a role and you see them do it. — Kelli O'Hara

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

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark. — Kelli Jae Baeli

I like men who are more in their heads. — Kelli Garner

Thank you," I said in relief. "Fuck you, douche," he replied before hanging up. — Kelli Jean

In a first pregnancy, you don't have a child yet, so you can nap and see movies and exercise. The notion of 'baby' is abstract. You look at the ultrasound and don't really understand that the creature you're seeing is soon going to be your roommate. — Kelli Williams

As a teenage girl myself, I've gone through times in my life where I've felt insecure about who I am and have tried so hard to fit in with everyone else. — Kelli Berglund

The hardest role that I've ever tried to play was Clara Johnson in 'Light in the Piazza' at Lincoln Center. It was the least fun I've ever had, but the most beautiful experience I've ever had. I could not understand her. I could not put my feet in her shoes. I came home every night, and I was depressed. — Kelli O'Hara

I used to be normal. Then, I met you."
"Pfft. There you go, blaming me for your mental hang-ups again," she said. "Besides, normal is boring."
"Yeah. You've shown me that, too. — Kelli Jean

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. — Kelli O'Hara

I've always wanted to do a Shakespeare play. — Kelli O'Hara

As I go under, I wonder if there's a reason for art? — Kelli Russell Agodon

Just because a flame will burn out, doesn't mean that it can't dance in the dark. — Kelli Crockett

Corned beef and cabbage - that's our favorite holiday meal when all the O' Haras gather around the table. — Kelli O'Hara

Sunday's my favorite day - that one matinee in the middle of the day! — Kelli O'Hara

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

I don't want to be famous for being famous. — Kelli O'Hara

I do love you, you jerk!!!! — Eris Kelli

The supernatural worldview is causing a great number of otherwise intelligent people to cling to a collection of atavistic concepts that have not, and never will serve humanity in any ultimately beneficial way. Any benefits that spirituality ostensibly provides to its adherents, can be found equally in the worldview of philosophy and ethics, communities of other kinds, and so on. It's a myth that the only morality, hope, purpose and comfort to be found, resides only in the supernatural. — Kelli Jae Baeli

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

Irony of the day: arthritis medication with a cap that old people can't get off, because of their arthritis. — Kelli Jae Baeli

I love playing an ingenue, and I love doing revivals, and I will continue to do that. — Kelli O'Hara

I am overweight. But to me, it's fat. I don't have Body Dysmorphic Disorder. When I look in the mirror I don't plunge into a depression and stick my finger down my throat or carve FAT in my arm with a pickle fork. I can appreciate when I look good aside from the weight. Sometimes I might say, Oh, I'm having a good face day.And a few times, after checking my appearance in the mirror before a date, I'd say, Okay. I'd date me. And I know if I ever could get the extra tonnage off, I'd be the first one to parade around in my underwear, or have no qualms about getting naked with a hottie, while the lights were still on in the room. — Kelli Jae Baeli

I don't read reviews, because if you believe the good ones, you have to believe the bad. — Kelli O'Hara

It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction. — Kelli O'Hara

I felt betrayed by him, extremely betrayed. He made me believe that if I followed a certain protocol of supplements and different drugs that I could become number 1 in the world. — Kelli White

I think it can be a good idea to know what you do well and use that to open the door for yourself. Once you open the door, close it behind you, and start to make changes. — Kelli O'Hara

Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true. — Laura Osnes

If you have kids, in my opinion, your priorities better shift to them. — Kelli O'Hara

The acne thing was bad. The shoulders, the face, my voice changed. I had a period every other week. — Kelli White

I felt that to do this drug, I had to become someone totally different than I was. I had to compromise my integrity, my value system. I knew it was so wrong. — Kelli White

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. — Kelli O'Hara

My great-grandfather, Peter O'Hara, was born in Ireland, I believe, in County Clare. His father, my great-great-grandfather, had actually come to America a generation before when times were very bad in Ireland. He worked in the Pennsylvania area and did well with horses and farming. — Kelli O'Hara

Maybe I'm still the mermaid.
Maybe the ocean is your hand. — Kelli Russell Agodon

I read a book once - about love that was developed and love that just is," I paused. "And when I read the part about love that just is I scoffed. I knew better. I knew that it was merely words written by some shallow man that wanted to say what he had to say. And then I met you. And I now, Kelli, know what it is that books are written about. I know what people write poems about, I know what it feels like to know, and I do mean know what it feels like to be certain that someone loves you unconditionally. Love that just is, — Scott Hildreth

-The guy who feeds the lions at the zoo — Kelli Dunham

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. — Kelli O'Hara

Like the kite that caught up to the sky,
painted with clouds, I lost track of it,
but it was connected
by string, something I was holding,
something I could always
bring back. — Kelli Russell Agodon

I had never been to Texas. I'd been through Texas, but I'm so glad to be back in a place that's not L.A. or New York. To talk about Dallas, to talk about there being sweet tea on the catering table, it's rich and saturated in American-ness. — Kelli Giddish

Rookie agent Melody Ganz spoke up. Ganz was on temporary assignment to Bravo after her gorgeous legs caught Kelli Randleman's attention early on in the Copeland investigation. Although basically straight, Melody had experimented a little in college and saw nothing wrong with switch-hitting if it got her out of the Bureau's dreadful backwater office in Jacksonville, South Carolina. — Jess Money

Our biggest fear is not in expressing the truth but that we will be attacked or belittled because of our truth. — Kelli Wilson

In unlikely places, God frees our hearts to love our neighbors, His children. Inmates, addicts, outcasts. All of them. - Kelli Regan - — Gary Chapman

Sometimes darkness
is the beauty I am made of - — Kelli Russell Agodon

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

Most people don't know that I'll eat anything spicy. A little extra kick is always a good thing! — Kelli Berglund

I escape disaster by writing a poem with a joke in it:
The past, present, and future walk into a bar - it was tense. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Look up and see the madness
organized in the stars. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Some people have goodness and merit buried deep inside and we glimpse it and see its value but ultimately it's covered by so much dirt that it's a 24/7 exercise in archaeology. — Kelli Jae Baeli

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

'The Practice' I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long. — Kelli Williams

Sometimes you don't know where you want to go until you start walking. — Kelli Crockett

If you think you are the mermaid, think again.
You are the ocean holding the mermaid afloat,
trying to change the world one dolphin at a time. — Kelli Russell Agodon

Playing characters allows me to do things I may not always do, while singing in concerts allows me to really find my own voice and grow. — 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. — Kelli O'Hara

My father named me Kelli because 'Kelli O'Hara' just sounded so Irish. — Kelli O'Hara

In fact, I'm a geek. — Kelli Garner

When I am alone, my table manners are rather piggish, but i suppose that's because I don't eat at a table, I eat at my desk. Which could be considered a table, except we tend to define things by their function, and this particular surface is a desk, so perhaps piggish is unfair. — Kelli Jae Baeli

Understand, it's never been easy to live,
when we're trying to escape ourselves. — Kelli Russell Agodon

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

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama. — Kelli Berglund

I need to pick up some lingerie," I told them. "What for?" asked Trey. "To make you feel pretty, Pound Cake," I retorted. "The fuck you think? — Kelli Jean

Morality comes from religion? There are no Baptist babies or Catholic babies or Muslim babies. Religion is imposed on children by adults and society, and morality is an evolutionary adaptation. Period. — Kelli Jae Baeli

One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans. — Kelli Jae Baeli