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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

I mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
DARREN CRISS

Mean Someday Theater
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 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
I don’t shave when I’m not working.
DARREN CRISS

Country Shave Working
My name’s Darren. I’m a musician, part time idiot. That’s a full time job actually.
DARREN CRISS

Jobs Musician Names
I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.
DARREN CRISS

Badass Being People Yourself
I’m ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
DARREN CRISS

Ambitious Bars Raises
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
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.
DARREN CRISS

Concepts Fairytale Stories
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.
DARREN CRISS

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

Aunt Look Looks
It’s been a secret too long, but I’m actually a straight male.
DARREN CRISS

Long Males Secret Straight
My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.
DARREN CRISS

Biggest Inanimate Objects
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don’t feel guilty about it
DARREN CRISS

Believe Guilty Pleasure
I’ve always been the annoying kid who sang.
DARREN CRISS

Always Annoying Kids Sing
I know. I’m Darren. I don’t know what I’m doing here.
DARREN CRISS

Business Darren Knows Risky
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
I’m super annoying, I’m the kind of guy that if there’s no recycling bins around I hoard plastic bottles, put them in my bag and I bring them home. If I can afford it I want to put solar panels in.
DARREN CRISS

Bags Guy Home
When you’re an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.
DARREN CRISS

Artist Expect Nothing
I don’t take breaks, man, I’m always doing something.
DARREN CRISS

Break Men Something Take
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’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
No matter what, I will always prefer a live performance. Whether it be a play or a musical, or playing music live.
DARREN CRISS

Long Music Musical Performance Play
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
As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything – I just enjoy music.
DARREN CRISS

Enjoy Musician Values
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.
DARREN CRISS

Friends Funny Good Really Sometimes
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

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.

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