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.

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.

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.

The main “food” God has given to strengthen us is the Bible, the Word of God.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

The man who lies asleep will never waken fame.

You get to have some mischief before you're basically a blackened banana, impotent, and nothing to be afraid of.

Negative expectations are a quick route to dead-end thinking.

It's easier to be creative if you've got other people to play with.

But the more poetry one reads the more one longs to read!

The human condition is not served by our technical ability to transmit a televised image around the world - if that image is totally inane.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.