Kelli O'Hara Quotes

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

I'm going to try to not let anyone put me in a box, and that certainly applies to the things I do outside of acting.

I really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.

My dad taught me to never be pigeonholed; to really allow yourself to reinvent characters as they reinvent you; to be bold and to be willing to play seemingly unlikeable people.

I just do what feels right. I think the great thing about getting to do what I do is that you can try out being a different person without having to screw up your life to do it.

It's so important to never limit yourself, to find yourself in a box.

I believe that being an actress or being involved in a movie has to be a life experience, otherwise why go for it? I have to change me, and I have to learn things, and I have to push me and my limits. By acting, I find a freedom inside of a prison in a way.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.

Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'

I've always been schizophrenic; I've never been interested in limiting myself.

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

When you can surprise yourself, you're truly acting.

For the guys who feel like they are glued to one position or one sport, don't do it man, do whatever you want to do.

I can't just pretend to be someone else all my life. I have to mix it up.

Don't put yourself in a box. Become anything that you want to be.

You can't be limited by your own experience.

There's so much more to life than just being healthy. There's so much more to life than just being normal.

Being tied down to a pre-med or engineering track would have slotted me into a very narrow group. Being a young filmmaker allowed me to explore many areas of life and many kinds of people.

As an actor, I still have to remind myself of daring to let go and not to repeat myself.

When I do short films, I try to do something completely out of my comfort zone, out of my element.

I always want to surprise myself, more than anybody else.

I pay for what I call eccentricity and my will to evolve.