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

Darren Criss

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

Cutting Guy Waiting
I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.
DARREN CRISS

Badass Being People Yourself
I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I’m happy when I land on the roof.
DARREN CRISS

Always Land Moon Roof
The first time you do anything, people always take a minute to try to figure it out, but once you witness it in person, the word starts to spread and it gains momentum year after year.
DARREN CRISS

People Trying Years
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.
DARREN CRISS

Connection Different Long Performer
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.
DARREN CRISS

Art Musician Symphony
Be nice people, cause nobody likes an asshole.
DARREN CRISS

Likes Nice People
No one’s tried to stab me. That’s cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.
DARREN CRISS

Cool Enjoy Stab
I don’t take breaks, man, I’m always doing something.
DARREN CRISS

Break Men Something Take
I’m ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
DARREN CRISS

Ambitious Bars Raises
I don’t shave when I’m not working.
DARREN CRISS

Country Shave Working
I just hope I can continue to do work that matters to me, I’m not interested in being any kind of superstar or anything I’m not. I’m just a dude who got lucky and an artist who cares about the work that I do.
DARREN CRISS

Artist Cares Hope Lucky
My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.
DARREN CRISS

Biggest Inanimate Objects
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything – I just enjoy music.
DARREN CRISS

Enjoy Musician Values
I’ve been lucky enough to work with the amazing Golden Globe Award winning Chris Colfer and that is fantastic. I get to work with him on a day-to-day basis and he is such a generous talent.
DARREN CRISS

Character Enough Fantastic Fun Lucky Winning
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.’
DARREN CRISS

Enough Jealous Octopus People

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