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.
DARREN CRISSAs a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything – I just enjoy music.
More Darren Criss Quotes
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No one’s tried to stab me. That’s cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.
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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.
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I’m always just waiting for someone to cut me off; I’m a chatty guy.
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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.
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I don’t take breaks, man, I’m always doing something.
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I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
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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.’
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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.
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I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
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I’m ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
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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.
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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.
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My name’s Darren. I’m a musician, part time idiot. That’s a full time job actually.
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Hope for everything, expect nothing.
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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.
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