"Good values transcend culture, religion and all that other stuff. My mother’s values are good because she’s a good woman — probably the closest thing I know to a perfect human being. I guess I’m biased. We’re big believers in humility, working hard and being nice to people. I really can’t say it enough. There’s this great line that I love to quote. On his last show, before he signed off from NBC, Conan O’Brien said it way better than I do. I’m just quoting — ‘Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.’"
— Darren Criss in Ruben Nepales’ book,
My Filipino Connection: The Philippines In Hollywood [
source] (via
daxterdd)
"Calling his performance a warm-up act for Michele, Criss described the show’s Rachel Berry as “charismatic” and “beautiful,” and summed up by saying, “I’m one of her biggest fans and I cry every time she sings on the show."
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Darren Criss’s introduction of Lea Michele at the “Taste For a Cure” Fundraiser. [s] (via
daxterdd)
"A woman came up to me one time after I played this song and she said ‘that was so lovely, wasn’t that Doris Day?’. I said ‘no honey, that’s actually Britney Spears’. The power of a tie and a suit."
"Darren’s Blaine Anderson is slowly but surely becoming the focal point (and therefore, future) of Glee."
