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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.’

Darren Criss

All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say ‘Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!’
DARREN CRISS

Aunt Look Looks
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
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.
DARREN CRISS

Mirrors People Thinking
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
I don’t shave when I’m not working.
DARREN CRISS

Country Shave Working
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
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.
DARREN CRISS

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

Ideas People Thinking
My name’s Darren. I’m a musician, part time idiot. That’s a full time job actually.
DARREN CRISS

Jobs Musician Names
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 CRISS

Art Believe Minority Parents Real Supporter
I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
DARREN CRISS

Mean Someday Theater
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
For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.
DARREN CRISS

Heart Holiday Season Thinking
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything – I just enjoy music.
DARREN CRISS

Enjoy Musician Values

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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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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