Darren Criss

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings. ”

I'm like any other composer. If you give me five years to write a symphony, I'm still going to be asking for more time two days before it's due. ”

I remember seeing 'Aladdin' when I was five or six and loving it. I looked at the big screen and said to my mum, 'Whatever this Genie guy does, I want to do.' Mum said I couldn't be a genie, but that Robin Williams, who did the voice-over in the film, was an actor. So I said, 'OK, then, I want to be an actor.' ”

I always shoot for the moon in my work, so that I'm happy when I land on the roof. ”