Darren Criss Quotes

That which makes you different is what makes you strong. Whether you're gay, straight, purple, orange, dinosaur; I don't care.

I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.

I've been lucky enough to work with the amazing Golden Globe Award winning Chris Colfer and that is fantastic. I get to work with him on a day-to-day basis and he is such a generous talent. Chris and I like to play. He always throws me things and I ping them back to him and it's really fun. We definitely have a very lovely rapport personally - I think on screen too - and I hope you can see that in the characters.

Challenge is good for any relationship.

All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say 'Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!'

Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball and I'm just trying to make nice with everybody and hope that if they kick me out they'll at least give me a ride home.

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

I don't shave when I'm not working.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

I'm always just waiting for someone to cut me off; I'm a chatty guy.

I'm in a real minority as far as having really supportive parents in regards to the arts. They never batted an eye as far as not letting me do that stuff. That's invaluable. I can't believe how unabashedly supportive they were about everything, between music and acting.

I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof.

Be nice people, cause nobody likes an asshole.

I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.

As a composer and as a musician I'm a true believer - and this is not to be overly diplomatic - I'm a believer that there's artistry in everything from a lawn gnome to a desk chair to a symphony to an Andy Warhol painting. There's art in absolutely everything.

Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.

I'm on cloud nine.. i wouldn't even say cloud nine ... more like cloud ten ... cloud nine was old news.

Please don't kill me, I'm nice.

I'm super annoying, I'm the kind of guy that if there's no recycling bins around I hoard plastic bottles, put them in my bag and I bring them home. If I can afford it I want to put solar panels in.

When I was in college, I was in the theater department, which for anyone who has been involved in any kind of theater program, you know that it's really wacky and tight-knit, a real family. Me and my good friends from college would do random shows and plays that were sometimes serious, but most of the time really goofy and funny.

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.

I believe singing should be like being an actor. People shouldn't have any problem buying an actor being in a comedy or a drama or a horror film. That should be the same way with music.

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due.

When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.

I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live. As long as it's live, it's the best because there's sort of an immediacy to connection between an audience and a performer, whereas where you do film or television, you're at the whim of so many different forces.

The power of a smile goes a long way. My mom taught me that.

Chris Colfer ... he's like a ... playful wood-nymph.

Buy my album because ... it's the kind of music you can be friends with. And it's the only way that *pause* aliens won't come to Earth and destroy us. I am sure of this.

Never let what is popular actually define your taste or interests.

There's nothing more badass than being who you are.

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.

The cool thing about music is no one can take music away from you, writing wise.

I've always been the annoying kid who sang.

When I play live in restaurants and cafes, I don't play my own stuff. I play jazz and 'American Songbook' standards, and I'll fuse it with top 40.

No matter how much we're on our phones, going to the show is the goal - you look at things online and watch videos and read blogs and comment, all so that you can go in person and see it yourself, and meet these people in real life, and then so you can go home and talk about it again on your screen.

There's not a damn thing that I do on my own that's not for my fans or for people that have supported me. So I don't really care about my agenda, I wanna be on yours.

Glee is more then just a show now. It's become a wonderful culture celebrating the underdog and glorifying individuality.

What can you expect from me in the next five years? Well ... I'll get older

People fall in love with a person, not a gender

I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I'll run for president.

As an actor it's your job to empathise with your character regardless of whether they have a different sexual orientation, spiritual beliefs, or anything.

I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.

I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

After gaining the incredible platform from 'Glee,' it wasn't so much of a decision to get involved as it was an opportunity to take part. I'll be honest, I'm not so much into the idea of one cause being more important than another; however, I felt that the Trevor Project was a perfect fit for my efforts. It stands for a lot of things that I believe in, as well as falls in line with much of what 'Glee' stands for.

I don't take breaks, man, I'm always doing something.

I wish I was old Hollywood.

I like orange and blue together, but I would never wear them.

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.