Chris Colfer

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

“There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“What grinds me the most is 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...”

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

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

“My grandpa had a saying before he died: You can hope in one hand, shit in the other, and see which is filled first.”

“I always laugh at the term 'Cinderella story', because, 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 lea...”

“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'r...”

“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 lif...”

“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...”

“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.”

“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.”