Top 83 Quotes & Sayings by Darren Criss

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American actor Darren Criss.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

Darren Everett Criss is an American actor, singer, and songwriter. He rose to fame starring on the television series Glee (2010–2015) and received Emmy and Golden Globe acting awards for his leading role as spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story (2018). He has also appeared on Broadway and in film and has released several musical albums.

American - Actor | Born: February 5, 1987

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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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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I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

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I never let my politics supersede my manners.

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I'm not a mean person.

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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'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.

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

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

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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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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.

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

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For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

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

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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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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.

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

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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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I wish I was old Hollywood.

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Challenge is good for any relationship.

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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.

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I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.

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

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I remember seeing 'Aladdin' when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, 'Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do.' Mum said I couldn't be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, 'OK, then, I want to be an actor.'

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

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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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My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

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I was consumed by my love for Chris Colfer, and I just couldn't hold it in any longer.

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Sometimes I pretend to be an octopus. But then people are like ‘Darren what’re you doing?’ And I just sit there and laugh because they’re not cool enough to be an octopus and I’m just like ‘Hah you’re just jealous because you’re not an octopus.’

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

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It’s been a secret too long, but I’m actually a straight male.

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

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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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Hope for everything, expect nothing.

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

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I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it

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My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.

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People fall in love with a person, not a gender or an age.

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I've always been the annoying kid who sang.

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Be nice people, cause nobody likes an asshole.

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

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Broadway is not just the song and the shows; it's the individual performers and the community.

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

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

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No one's tried to stab me. That's cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.

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