Top 44 Lea Michele Quotes

I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.

When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the ‘Golden Globes’ and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors d’oeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.

Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to do what you feel is best and what you believe in and what your body is telling you that it needs. I really think everyone should do what’s best for them, and what’s best for me may not be best for someone else.

I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old – an actor!

Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.

Sarfati. That’s my real last name. I don’t use it a lot because I got ‘Lea So-fatty,’ ‘Lea So-farty’ at school.

It’s just really important I think for fashion to be affordable, because everyone should have the opportunity to wear cute things and be happy and comfortable in what they are wearing. That’s definitely how I like to shop and how I like to think about clothes and fashion.

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

Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.

I’m a really big animal lover.

Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L’Oreal Paris iconic lipstick – it was instant glamour and I’ve been hooked ever since.

I have loved ‘Les Miz’ for so long. It was the first Broadway show I’d ever done.

I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow.

My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.

I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn’t really great – people didn’t really want to be part of the choir, they didn’t want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn’t the cool thing to do.

I’m a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.

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.

‘Glee’ has made me feel beautiful.

I always sing Adele in the shower. But everyone should know you never sing an Adele song in public because no one’s better than Adele.

I would love Kate Middleton to be in ‘Glee.’ Wouldn’t that be fantastic? That would be great.

I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through ‘Spring Awakening,’ which I left in 2008.

I need some me-time. I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don’t want to burn out.

I have been involved with ‘Spring Awakening’ for six years. I am 20 now – I just turned 20 in August – and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

I don’t go out to clubs. You’ll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.

But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of ‘Glee,’ like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that’s interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.

I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.

I’m honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.

How many managers told me, ‘Get a nose job. You’re not pretty enough?’ But I proved them wrong.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn’t have a nose job and money and if you weren’t thin, you weren’t cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn’t pretty enough to be on television.

I make a vegan baked ziti. And even though that doesn’t sound enjoyable, it really is.

Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I’m embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.

I worried that people wouldn’t like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don’t try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

I have such a passion because I adore animals so much.

I’m five foot three. I don’t look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I’m 12.

I didn’t know I could sing until I auditioned for ‘Les Miserables.’ My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.

I’m overjoyed and beyond honored to be a part of the L’Oreal Paris family. I’m such a fan of L’Oreal Paris not just for all of their amazing products, but for what they stand for.

I’m Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I’m 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look at me on a magazine cover and see me in a movie and say that they have someone they can relate to.

I want to be in ‘Funny Girl.’ And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.

I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in ‘Dirty Dancing’ – these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it’s great that everyone on ‘Glee’ is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.

I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can’t help but feel insecure.

Theatre just fills me up so much.

Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.

I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat.