Top 101 Glee Quotes

I always wanted to be on ‘Glee.’ As soon as the pilot aired, I said I needed to be on the show.

Every day, I hear a song and I think, ‘This would be great to cover on Glee.’ I like Led Zeppelin, of course, and Pink Floyd, Alice in Chains.

Being in the limelight with ‘Glee,’ I’ve definitely felt pressure to stay fit. But honestly, you have to ignore it.

I’ve never been passionate about just music, I’ve never seen myself going into music in that sense. My love for music has always been connected to the stories told through music, which is why I was drawn to theater and why I think ‘Glee’ is so powerful.

I grew up performing in glee club at my school; I was the ostrich in ‘Peter Pan,’ and then I was super-involved in church choir and worship leading at my church. So I always loved music and was involved with it, but never really thought it was what I wanted to do until I started writing.

More people saw the pilot of ‘Glee’ than saw me in my entire 10-year career on Broadway.

Towards the end, there weren’t that many people watching ‘Glee.’ So I don’t know how many people would then watch a spinoff. We’re off the air for a reason.

I love ‘Glee.’

I’ve never been one to take glee in anyone’s demise, and when I saw Jerry Sandusky walk out in handcuffs, I did kind of feel a bit sorry for him, even though the jury found him to do some horrific things; I was like, ‘His life is over.’

I love that there are all these macho guy actors out there that have secret desires to be on ‘Glee.’

I just think that probably when somebody calls themselves ‘born again’ and kind of goes out there in a pretty radically zealous way, professes their glee about that, it can creep people out.

I don’t stop. It’s my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do ‘Evita.’ I want to do ‘Sweeney Todd’ with Chris Colfer. We want to do ‘Wicked.’ I’ll be Elphaba and he wants to play ‘Guy-linda.’ I want to do movies, make music. ‘Glee’ is only the beginning.

My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation.

I’m playing a powerhouse singer who is big competition, but she’s also really down to earth and sweet. But the whole sweet thing goes away when she’s in competition mode. I love the show, so I’m very excited to be a part of it. I’m going to kill it on ‘Glee!’

I was still afraid to sing in front of people before ‘Glee.’

One of the most amazing things about ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ is that every song is an original. There are no covers. I think ‘Glee’ had to deal with forcing covers into their plotlines. That can be difficult to pull off.

When it comes to ‘Glee,’ I feel like I’ve been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.

‘Ugly Betty’ has opened my eyes to the world of fashion journalism – I’m looking forward to going to college for that. Until then, I don’t know. Will I appear on ‘Glee?’

Some of my favorite artists are Jason Mraz, Eric Hutchinson, Ben Folds, Bruno Mars, Mumford and Sons, Maroon 5 – their vibe is slightly different from all the pop stuff on ‘Glee,’ although some do fall into that genre.

There will always be, within a party, people who backed one candidate versus people who backed another, and there will be factions in the party, and there’s always a little glee faction looking at the difficulty of the other faction.

There are two ways to approach the writing of a mystery novel: adhere to the rules, or break them with glee.

I was a ‘Glee’ fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.

I sold my first screenplay six months before ‘Glee,’ but they had the option for a year and now it’s back with me.

I have a CBE, and I accepted it with glee because it’s not bestowed on you by the royal family; it’s not bestowed on you by the government; you have to be nominated by the public.

I have a bit of a problem with ‘American Idol.’ Forgive me, but it’s difficult for me to watch. I can’t help but think of people being exploited. On the other hand, I’m really enjoying ‘Glee.’

I’m heavily involved in the creative with choreographer Christopher Scott. I go to rehearsals with ‘Glee’ and then practice with LXD till about midnight.

Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it’s not bestowed on you by the royal family, it’s not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.

After a decade this glum, we deserved a shot of ‘Glee,’ a show that restored our faith in the power of song, the beauty of dance, and the magic of ‘spirit fingers’ to chase our cares and woes into somebody else’s backyard.

I can’t watch ‘Glee’ because I get so jealous that I’m not there with them doing it that I can’t even watch.

I like that ‘Pitch Perfect’ is one of my first forays into film and just being seen in that kind of light, aside from some people who know me from ‘Spring Awakening’ or the other things that I’ve done. I think in so many ways it’s kind of like my own ‘Glee’ or ‘Smash’.

It’s always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from ‘Glee,’ from something of a different tone.

I love ‘Glee.’ I cry all the time when I watch ‘Glee’ because I don’t know if it’s satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it okay to cry.

On ‘Glee,’ the director can be like, ‘Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.’ And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, ‘I know exactly what to do here.’

I would love to be on ‘Glee,’ thus furthering the myth that I’m a gay man.

The unhappy irony is that, while ‘Glee’ is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

The good thing is I didn’t feel like anyone was going to judge me on ‘Glee.’

You cannot overstate, I don’t think, the impact of a show like ‘Glee’ on a generation.

What a turnaround in sentiment ‘Glee’ exemplifies. It was only a few years ago that pursuing the dream of a Broadway career or cabaret stardom relegated some poor yearning dope to a lavender ghetto of losers, self-deluders, and social rejects.

Literally, when the pilot came out for ‘Glee,’ I think we had a watching party or something. We were all seniors, and everyone all of a sudden in the show choir were so excited. We were like, ‘This show is awesome. It’s so cool. This is exactly us.’

‘Glee’ is very easy to clown because I feel like it’s just crumbling. ‘Smash!’ ‘Smash’ is the ultimate. I love it because I’m all about theater. I did plays in high school and college, and it totally brings me back to that feeling: how excited you get on opening night, how it sucks when you’re not learning the dance moves.

Most novels I come across have all the excitement of a long trip on a bus with a sensitive glee club. Yammer and chat.

When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, ‘Don’t change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.’ That thing was ‘Glee,’ and it took off from there.

I was on a TV show called ‘Glee.’ I mean, I was on the real tail end of that show; it was already way past its peak. But still, for me aged 17 landing something like that was a big deal.

Musicals are hard for me because I got thrown out of the glee club in high school, because I couldn’t sing in tune at the time. I can sing in tune now, but I have to work really hard on it to make sure that I don’t exercise one of my great talents, which is the ability to sing in three keys at the same time.

I was kind of going that route with my country music. Indie country. Which would work, if I was playing on Americana stages. Unless I had a television outlet like ‘Glee’.

The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

I think it’s funny because on ‘Glee Project,’ there’s that added pressure, but with ‘Glee,’ there’s no element of competition. No one’s trying to dance better than anyone. But there’s that added pressure of, ‘So many people are going to watch ‘Glee’ this week. If I don’t nail this dance, I look like an idiot.’

I love ‘Modern Family.’ And I love ‘Glee’ – the singing, the music – Jane Lynch just kills me.

I’m not a song and dance man, so you’re not going to see me on ‘Glee’ anytime soon. If you want that show to continue, keep me far away from it.

Glee’ is a great show in terms of tackling social issues.

I’d love to be Spider-Man, but one, it doesn’t fit into the ‘Glee’ schedule.

Meeting with people is awesome in every sense of the word. It can inspire you with glee. It can inspire you with happiness. It can inspire you with sadness and melancholy, but also hope.

I love all the teenager stuff like ‘Glee,’ ‘90210,’ ‘Vampire Diaries,’ ‘Gossip Girl.’

There was this project I really wanted before ‘Glee’ and I didn’t get cast – I went in about 13 times and I was so bummed when I didn’t get it. But then a month later I got cast on ‘Glee,’ and I felt like it was meant to happen.