Best 52 quotes of Darren Criss on MyQuotes

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.

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

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.

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

Be nice people, cause nobody likes an asshole.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Hope for everything, expect nothing.

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

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

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

I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I never thought I would meet Mariah Carey, but I really never thought I'd be introduced to her by Whitney Houston. She's like, "Hey, baby, this is Mariah." I'm like, "I know. I'm Darren. I don't know what I'm doing here.

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

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 couldnt 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.

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

Its always important to recognize your situation and not take it for granted.

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

I've always been the annoying kid who sang.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.’

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.