Moira Kelly Quotes (33 Quotes)


    I'd love to have the opportunity to sing in a Disney movie.

    I've been told before, and I tend to believe it, I'm not like most actresses out there.

    I don't even own a television. I'm proud of that.

    I do have the freedom to choose what I want to do and I'll continue to do that.



    Nudity... I have to say I will never do it again.

    I find nothing wrong with the naked body.

    I never had to pound the pavement and really struggle after college.

    But what I like to sing mostly is blues and cabaret style.

    A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

    I just want the opportunity to continue to do great films, play great characters and work with great people.


    I just wanted to be married and to be happy ever after.

    They used to say I was a younger Winona Ryder and that always made me laugh because I'm three years older than she is.

    You know, I like playing around with my voice and trying all different types of kooky voices.

    I did everything I could to stay in college and pay my own way, so I think that if success hadn't come so quickly, I would still be pursuing it.

    Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.

    We have a world that is searching for answers, that is searching for a way back to spirituality.

    Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.

    I get a lot of recognition for my voice. That always surprises me.

    An audience is going to be able to find a little bit of Dorothy in themselves and relate to this woman.: roles like Dorothy Day are so rare in Hollywood.

    There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.

    I used to babysit a lot, and I used to be a nanny.

    I can cry at the drop of the pin. But comedy is hard for me; it's the timing.

    Money's not important to me. Movie star acknowledgement is not important to me. I don't want to be a big studio actress. I don't want to be in the limelight.

    I truly believe that God brought this, Dorothy Day script to me, because for a long time up until I was in eight grade - I wanted to be a nun.

    We're not all called to be Dorothy Day.

    First of all - I only believe what I see.


    I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.

    I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

    My dream is to eventually open a children's theatre.

    I went to Marymount College in New York City with a lot of kids whose parents paid their way, and I wouldn't even have thought of asking my parents - they couldn't afford it, not with six kids!


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