Growing up Catholic has been a gift.

Moira Kelly

Categorized in : Up Gift Growing Up Growing

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.

battles turn face lost

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.

day me god time

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.

laugh say me three

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

me cry comedy i-can

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.

start rock-and-roll music listening

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

listen now me music

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

sing blues like style

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

really never college struggle

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!

city parents new way

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.

think my-own success way

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

after be-happy just happy

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

nanny lot used

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

you creative life children

Hollywood is a world all its own.

own hollywood world

I find nothing wrong with the naked body.

find nothing naked body

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

even own proud television

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

me always recognition voice

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

off working pretty graduation

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

open theatre dream children

I like to go rock scrambling.

rock go like