Quotes from Darren Criss

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.

Im like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, Im still going to be asking for more time two days before its due.

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?'

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

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.

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.

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

I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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