Darren Criss Quotes

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.

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

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

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“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.”

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It's always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.

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“I don't shave when I'm not working.”

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I'm this goofball. I look at myself in the mirror, and the person that I know doesn't match up to what I think people love to perceive me as.

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“I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen ... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.”

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“As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.”

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“I always make time for the things that are important to me.”

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“I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.”

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

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

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“When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.”

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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.

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“We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?'”

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Challenge is good for any relationship.

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“I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.”

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

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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.

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

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“I wish I was old Hollywood.”

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“I never let my politics supersede my manners.”

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“I've always enjoyed fashion and dressing up for things, whether it's high fashion or play fashion.”

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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.

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“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.”

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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.

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“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.”

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“People fall in love with a person, not a gender”

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

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

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

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

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“I've always loved fairytales, and I've loved the concept of, um, some of the best parts of a lot of stories are the beginning.”

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

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“Be nice people, cause nobody likes an asshole.”

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I just hope I can continue to do work that matters to me, I'm not interested in being any kind of superstar or anything I'm not. I'm just a dude who got lucky and an artist who cares about the work that I do.

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“Hope for everything, expect nothing.”

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“Guys I'm kind of nutty, but you have to understand that that's all just me being myself.”

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“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

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“It's been a secret too long, but I'm actually a straight male.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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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.

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“The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.”

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