Darren Criss Quotes

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Effort
  • Changes

• The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendously if I can write my own play under what the writer has written.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Play
  • Doing

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Me
  • Like
  • Trouble

• At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Time
  • Live

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Women
  • Support
  • Decision

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Men
  • Wear
  • Clothing

• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Stand

• Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Space
  • Attitude
  • Vanity

• For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Long
  • Success
  • Myself

• I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Friend
  • Fire
  • Forest

• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • Often
  • Cyber

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• I was born a proud daughter of Pakistan, though like all Swatis I thought of myself first as a Swati and Pashtun, before Pakistani.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Proud
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I graduated with an English degree and worked for awhile in academic publishing.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • English
  • Degree
  • Academic

• One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • May
  • Age
  • Change

• Whatever I was doing, even when I was at school, I never repressed anything that I felt. I wasn't flamboyant; I was actually quite reticent most of the time. But if I felt I had to do something, I did it.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Time
  • School

• I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• When I was a teenager, I continued to visit imaginary places by spending all my free time at our local community theater. Whether I acted in a play or worked backstage, the world of Tennessee Williams or Shakespeare always seemed more real to me than the dreary life of high school.

  

  Mary Pope Osborne
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Money
  • Doing
  • Performance

• I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.

  

  Darren Criss
  • High