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My name’s Darren. I’m a musician, part time idiot. That’s a full time job actually.

Darren Criss

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

Cutting Guy Waiting
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
I don’t take breaks, man, I’m always doing something.
DARREN CRISS

Break Men Something Take
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’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 always been the annoying kid who sang.
DARREN CRISS

Always Annoying Kids Sing
My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.
DARREN CRISS

Biggest Inanimate Objects
I would be the worst president in the history of the United States. Unless you want the apocalypse to happen really soon then yes, I’ll run for president.
DARREN CRISS

President Running United States
No one’s tried to stab me. That’s cool. I enjoy not being stabbed.
DARREN CRISS

Cool Enjoy Stab
I’m ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.
DARREN CRISS

Ambitious Bars Raises
I know. I’m Darren. I don’t know what I’m doing here.
DARREN CRISS

Business Darren Knows Risky
Hope for everything, expect nothing.
DARREN CRISS

Expectations Hope Motivational
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
Be nice people, cause nobody likes an asshole.
DARREN CRISS

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

Mean Someday Theater
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
When you’re an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.
DARREN CRISS

Artist Expect Nothing
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
All my aunts in the Phillipines, they look at me and say ‘Darreeeeeen! You so thin! Eat!’
DARREN CRISS

Aunt Look Looks
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
What can you expect from me in the next five years? Well… I’ll get older
DARREN CRISS

Next Wells Years
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
I want people to know that there is nothing more badass than being yourself.
DARREN CRISS

Badass Being People Yourself
I don’t shave when I’m not working.
DARREN CRISS

Country Shave Working
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 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

My name’s Darren. I’m a musician, part time idiot. That’s a full time job actually.

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