Chris Colfer Quotations

I think always staying focused and not taking things too seriously, but taking the important things seriously.

It doesn't matter how old I get, I always act like an excited five year-old kid with severe ADD and a waddle at Disneyland.

I grew up in a conservative small town, and the gay characters I saw on TV and in movies when I was growing up were all flamboyant and obnoxious and sometimes kind of annoying.

Not taking yourself too seriously, that's the important thing.

I could never rap, personally. I can't even wrap presents.

My life is an awkward visit from the kids table.

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

I was a lone duck in a swan-filled pond who criticized everyone.

I wish I could walk into a room and feel superior and have my nose up at everybody, but I can't, because I know I'm just a huge nerd, and that wouldn't work for me.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to fall in my GaGa shoes one night on tour and I'm hoping it becomes a Youtube sensation.

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.

I don't personally feel a responsibility to be a role model, but as the actor, I do.

I was made fun of a lot in high school because of the way I sound and the way I was.

I'm horrible at auditions anyway. Maybe that's why I never got anything.

I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

I wasn't going to get such a nice car - I was going to get a cute little hybrid or something, keep the trees happy - but then my grandfather died, and it was all: retail therapy!

Being a best-selling author just means the world for me. Some of my happiest memories, growing up, are being at book stores and reading books I couldn't afford, as a kid, and the midnight parties, waiting for the next Harry Potter book. The fact that I have that straw in my cap means more to me than anything I've ever accomplished before.

Sometimes you have good days, and sometimes you have bad days. It really depends on how much caffeine you've had.

I think every time a movie gets made, it's a miracle. I would love to get to a point where it became easier and it wasn't so much of a struggle to get it done or finished.

Everyone that I meet always wants me to direct, but whenever I think of directing, I think of aligning shots. I'd definitely have to write and direct something. But I don't know if I could.

It doesn't matter how greatly you've been hurt or how much you're hurting, it's what you do with the pain that counts. You could cry for years or you could choose to learn and grow from it.

There's no solution to life, there's going to be problems no matter what.

Woo! It's so cold, I think we may be twin sisters now," he said through rattling teeth.

I've learned that the more people embrace their disadvantages, the less disadvantaged they become!

If you ask me, it doesn't matter what life you're living, life never has a solution. No matter how hard the struggles are that you leave behind, new struggles always take their place.

Once the world has made a decision, there is little anyone can do to change its mind.

I have a sack of hate mail that I want to respond to. One day, when I’m tired or tipsy, I will respond and tell them what I think.

I hope to write someday and that’s even more terrifying than performing. You don’t just entertain the audience, you give them little bits of your soul.

You'd think after thousands of years on this planet the human race would have released some kind of handbook for teenagers, telling them how to get through teenagehood and get help for their issues. Yet here we are, struggling through it in our own ways.

To be famous is to stand on a pedestal and give the world permission to tell you all your flaws.

But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

Intelligence is not a competition," she said. "There is plenty to go around, and there are many ways it can be demonstrated.

People only love you as long as they're getting something of you, but the minute you say something they don't want to hear or do something they don't want to see, all the admiration drains from their hearts.

I've been pushed down many flights of stairs in my time, but I always manage to find an elevator

If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.

Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling.

I really think, without trying to give us credit that we don't deserve, I really feel like Kurt and Blaine are a modern version of Lucy and Ricky. Oh, I'm Lucy for sure.

Oh, I have this feud going with the L.A. Unified School District, because I keep getting these phone calls saying my daughter keeps missing classes, I mean, at all hours of the night, I had like, two calls this morning and I keep calling saying I haven't got a daughter!

I hate to say I'm a Cinderfella, but I've been watching the Globes since I was an embryo. I got a Facebook message from an elementary school friend who said, 'I remember you standing up and talking about attending the Golden Globes when we were little.'

I love thinking that there is magic in the world, that there are people in the world with amazing abilities that we just don’t know about.

I feel like little bits of my soul are being shipped domestically.

A few of the girls and I jumped into my jetta and took off. "Lets go stand outside someone from Glee's house now," one of them said

I almost shat my pants. Literally, the floor was almost covered in my shat.

I know I'm bitter and a little jaded, and mildly enjoy it, but am I a sad person? Am I happy? I plan on being happy in the future for sure, but it isn't here yet. So what does that make me, exactly?

I may have no idea what I'm talking about," I said, a little ticked off now. "But we're all a part of a minority waiting for a majority to pull their heads out of their asses.

You're sad-looking," she said. "My grandson used to be such a happy boy. He used to write me stories. I remember the first story he ever wrote me, 'Once upon a time, there was a boy.' And that became 'Once upon a time there was a boy who wanted to fly.' And they kept getting better and better over time. I never found out if the boy got to fly." I gave her a small smile. If only she knew the boy's wings had been clipped.

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

I was reading that lightning is a negative charge that comes from the friction that clouds carry. And since opposites attract, I would like to think that he was so positive the moment that he died, so happy, he pulled that bolt right out of the sky. I don’t know if that’s possible, but that’s what I believe.

High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.

When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out

I'm allergic to stupidity.

What grinds me the most is that we’re sending kids out into the world who don’t know how to balance a checkbook, don’t know how to apply for a loan, don’t even know how to properly fill out a job application, but because they know the quadratic formula we consider them prepared for the world?

To Grandma, for being my first editor and giving me the best writing advice I’ve ever received: “Christopher, I think you should wait until you’re done with elementary school before worrying about being a failed writer.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.

Due to personal issues, I have been let go from the cast of Glee. Explanations will come shortly,

Cast parties are a lot of fun!

I grew up doing musical theater.

I'm really not good blackmail material.

I love bookstores. I love the energy in a bookstore and the smell of the paper.

My life is an awkward visit from the kid's table while awaiting a History Channel special.

The higher the hair, the closer to god.

I hate mirrors; every time I look in one I see things that could be improved. If I could give my younger self any advice it would be: ‘Take a deep breath, the world is not ending – and do something with your hair.’ I had the same haircut from when I was a toddler all the way through high school, it was this weird side-parting. I didn’t like change.

There's nothing more terrifying then a teenage girl.

People still call me ma’am on the phone, and it’s just part of life now. I’m not even phased by it… Going through DriveThrus is always fun, because it’s always so shocking when they see me. It’d just be kind of like, ‘Thank you ma… woah!! Woah, sorry about that!’

Whether I'm in front of the camera, behind the camera, at my computer writing a novel or a screenplay, as long as I get to entertain someone out there, I'm happy.

I don't know much, But when push comes to shove, I definitely don't believe, There's such a thing as wrong love.

I do all kind of fun things when I'm unconscious.

Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don't have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn't mean you're without your own talents.

...because a life without meaning, without drive or focus, without dreams or goals, isn't a life worth living.

Don’t listen to what people tell you because they’ll try to bring you down. And don’t listen to yourself, either, because yourself will try to bring you down even more so than anyone else. As long as you just put all your energy into one thing, it can happen.

Whoa, I've really got to stop making plans with fictional characters. It can't be healthy to develop relationships with people who don't exist.

No matter what you do, you can never please everyone. And that was the hardest lesson to learn. In fact, I'm still learning it.

I just downloaded the new Alvin and the Chipmunks album! They're the only guys that make music in my key!

Every driven person comes from a mountain of pain they wish to keep hidden.

My imaginary friends have become my imaginary children.

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

I don't think I've ever tried to be something that I'm not. People do that for you. People try to pigeonhole you. People tried typecasting me, before they even saw me in anything else. I've never understood that. I was like, "Why don't you wait until my next project, before you start telling my what my career is going to look like, for the next 10 years?" I've never let it set me back because I always knew the world would try to do that for me, anyway.

There are ways to meet people and surround yourself with like-minded people who will support you.

That’s my biggest fear – disappointing those people who look up to me.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

Don't be afraid to be human - you're human, you're going to have emotional days. You're going to have days when things suck and then some days when things are great, but don't feel guilty because you're experiencing that. Don't feel guilty from being human.

I don’t think I have the right parts to appreciate '50 Shades of Grey'.

Villains are mostly just people villainized by circumstance

Once upon a time' These are the most magical words our world has ever known and the gateway to the greatest stories ever told. They're an immediate calling to anyone who hears them-a calling into a world where everyone is welcome and anything can happen. Mice can become men, maids can become princesses, and they can teach valuable lessons in the process.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.

I think I just want to leave my mark in some way. I hope I leave the world a better place than it was when I came, and I think the best way I can do that is through acting and writing, and hopefully it will make a difference someday.

The world will always choose convenience over reality. It's easier to hate, blame, and fear than it is to understand. No one wants the truth; they want entertainment.

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

I was obsessed with fairytales, and I was a very, very inquisitive kid, and I would ask my mom all kinds of questions. It all kind of formed a story in my head, and I really wanted to be a published author when I was 10, but I had a hard time writing a novel when I was 10, so I decided to wait until I was little bit older and then get it done.

Right now, we're living in an ugly chapter of our lives, but books always get better!

Like having a great idea, life comes at you fast. It hits you and tries to escape and be expressed in any way possible. In a way, it's a lot like...lightning.

In what grade do we stop believing in ourselves? I asked. In what grade do we stop believing, period? I mean, SOMEONE has to be a Nobel Peace Prize winner. SOMEONE has to be a ballerina. Why not us?

A flame may love a snowflake, but they can never be together without each harming the other.

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

I’m not really afraid to be my awkward self, and I know there’s lots and lots of other people just like me out there that are awkward themselves. And I think they just appreciate that I’m not afraid to say the weird things that I say and tweet the obnoxious things that I tweet. But I’ve tried being other people and myself suits me the best. I think you just be honest. I think people respond to honesty.