Darren Criss

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

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

“I'm incredibly anal about everything that I do.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.”

“Challenge is good for any relationship.”

“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 have an unabashed adoration of cheesy pop music.”

“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.”

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

“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 never let my politics supersede my manners.”

“I've always loved Broadway, but I never thought I'd actually do it because I was never a full Broadway dancer. And I don't have a big, booming voice.”

“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.”

“I wish I was old Hollywood.”