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I know. I’m Darren. I don’t know what I’m doing here.

Darren Criss

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

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

Aunt Look Looks
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
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.
DARREN CRISS

Believe Cause Decision Fall Important Opportunity
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 mean, part of me would love to be a fat tenured professor of theater someday.
DARREN CRISS

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

Artist Expect Nothing
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
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
What can you expect from me in the next five years? Well… I’ll get older
DARREN CRISS

Next Wells Years
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 know. I’m Darren. I don’t know what I’m doing here.

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