Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be.

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience

If I were to be back on Glee, I would like to spend some time with Lea Michele because I love her and we go way back.

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest.

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

I hate the thought of her being forced into a box that doesn't fit her. Of having her wings cut off, her sight blinded, her hearing muted, her voice stilled.

Death is lighter than a feather. Duty, heavier than a mountain.

What's the point of these demagogic campaigns if these hungry kids are still here on the road? All little ones deserve protection, food, love and peace.

To me the acid test was always the crew, and if the crew liked you, you're OK.

The news media in general are liberals.

If you have competence, you know the edge. It wouldnt be a competence if you didnt know where the boundaries lie. Asking whether youve passed the boundary is a question that almost answers itself.

No sale, no commission. No commission, no eat. That made an impression on me.

I do not teach history in my films. I don't have a linear point of view or argument. What I do in my films is to live the human experience; human, whether in Nazareth or anywhere else in the world.

What is necessary is not EHV, but 3-HV: (Head-Heart-and Hands). The hands should carry out what the heart and approved of the ideas emanated from the head.

I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.