Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.
If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.
In life, when you are faced with an unfortunate circumstance, there’s no book, there’s no guide, there’s no right answer on how to get to the other side. You just sort of wake up one day and you have two paths in front of you, one where you go up and one where you can fall, and choosing the path to rise is most certainly not the easy path but it’s the brave one.
Confidence is what makes you stand out.
I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.
You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.
Find something you’re passionate about and you know, do something.
Talent doesn't appear over night. It takes a lot of work and honing your craft, but also don't give up because people may say you're not good enough. I had so many teachers in high school and college saying "You're not going to make it. You're not. You can't." Luckily I had enough people around me who said I could.
I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can't help but feel insecure.
I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.
Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing
I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.
I'm a relationship girl. I would rather be long-distance than not have a relationship at all.
We live in a world of self-deprecation, and while it’s healthy to make fun of ourselves from time to time, it bothers me when I see women of all ages belittling their accomplishments because they don’t want to appear boastful or overconfident. You don’t see a lot of guys out there underplaying their strengths or making light of what they’re good at, so why should women? While I get that there’s a fine line between owning your accomplishments and reciting every line of your résumé, there is absolutely no shame in being proud of what you’ve managed to achieve! Own it!
Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It's a peek into my life, past and present. Maybe it's coming from my theater and performance background, but nothing felt right unless I could relate to it.
But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I'm not perfect.
By showing that you don't have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort.
I don't see anyone as being different than anyone else, whether you're gay or straight or whatever - everyone's the same. That's how I was raised.
How many managers told me, 'Get a nose job. You're not pretty enough'? But I proved them wrong.
I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.
A lighthouse doesn't save the ships; it doesn't go out and rescue them, it's just this pillar that helps to guide people home.
I was never pretty enough to be the pretty girl and I was never quirky enough to be the quirky girl. Boys didn't look at me in high school and think I was the pretty girl.
I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew that every choice I made would help me get to that point. So the better the choices I made, the more of a chance I would have to get to where I wanted to be.
But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of 'Glee,' like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that's interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.
If anything’s going on in our lives, we have each other. One time, I was having a bad day, and I called Chris Colfer. He came over with a pint of ice cream and Madea Goes to Jail, and it was, like, the best night of my life.
