Quotes from Melissa Benoist

I always try to have my mother's voice in my head, because I am very proud of the morals that she tried to instill in us.

Supergirl is this unattainable, idealistic optimist of an alien, and all of us can escape into her world, and she always saves the day.

I'm obsessed with Michael Fassbender. He's unbelievable. I think he's a modern day Brando. Every movie that he's done in the past couple years, I just died for him. He's extremely fascinating.

At school, when it came to being social, I had no idea how to do it.

Every day, I just thank the universe that I am as lucky as I am. Because, I went through periods of time when I didn't have a single bit of work. Months and months where I was auditioning all the time. I mean, all the time, and nothing was happening.

Of course, every actor wants to play as many roles on the Richter scale as they can, and Rachel Koresh certainly is very different from Supergirl, but she shares a lot of the strength that Supergirl has.

Life doesn't have to be as hard as we make it for ourselves a lot of the time.

Every role affects you.

I have a very optimistic view of my future right now. I'm very excited to see where it goes, but I try not to make plans just because I know how unpredictable life can be. Especially the life of an actor, and especially the life of an actor on 'Glee.' I just want to be happy and healthy and surrounded by people I love, as cheesy as it sounds.

I've essentially done theater for more of my life than I've done television or film, and it's really something I feel I know better.