112 Quotes by Darren Criss

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

Theater is a living creature. It takes a while to break in, like a new pair of shoes.

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

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings.

We are a categorically obsessed culture, where we have to compartmentalize everything in reference to another thing, like, 'What does it sound like? Does it sound like this?

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

When I'm in the U.K. I find myself using a lot of Britishisms.

Hollywood is a strange, strange thing. I feel like I've been invited to a very exclusive ball and I'm just trying to make nice with everybody and hope that if they kick me out they'll at least give me a ride home.

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.