Top 35 Darren Criss Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

I wish I was old Hollywood.

I’m always just waiting for someone to cut me off; I’m a chatty guy.

I’d like to be writing songs for other people – I just like writing songs.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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?’

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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.’

I’m not a mean person.

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 never let my politics supersede my manners.

I’m incredibly anal about everything that I do.

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

I have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.

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.

Challenge is good for any relationship.

I don’t shave when I’m not working.

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’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.