Cory Monteith Quotes

1. Book of Mormon = the best thing I've ever seen, ever.

2. I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself.

3. I'm not gonna deny this. I was just an uncoordinated mess that day and I couldn't put the ball into the pins. I couldn't do it. It was bad. She just brought the A-game. And I brought the B-game.

4. I'm really pale.









5. Ok: I just saw a space shuttle on the back of a plane at JFK. Am I hallucinating? Am I dead?

6. One of the reasons I got into acting was because its so fly-by-night. I never knew what was going to happen. Now all of a sudden I know I'm going to be in Los Angeles for the next two years. It's great. I'll do anything the show will have me do. I'll do movies, I'll do as many seasons as they'll have me.

7. Such a senseless tragedy. When are we going to reconsider the role of guns in society? How many more times does this have to happen?






8. If there was a toilet for adults that played certain music depending on the weight of the action, I'd totally buy it.

9. Most common misconception is that this is trying to rip off "High School Musical"! Quite the contrary, as this show really isn't a musical at all. It's a comedy show with singing. Rules apply to when you can sing and dance, which keeps the tone of the show realistic.

10. I don't want kids to think it's okay to drop out of school and get high, and they'll be famous actors, too.





11. I love big shooting days, with crane shots and hundreds of people on set. That's really exciting...Shooting in LA for the first time has been really exciting for me too!

12. I'm a big fan of "Glee." I think it's really smart. And I think it's well-timed. But you can't not be surprised at the reception this show's received. It's really something else.




13. How do I put this? "Glee" is like "High School Musical" if "High School Musical" had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.

14. I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.







15. FOX taught me how to sing and dance.

16. It's always exciting to explore adult roles when the vast majority of viewers that have seen me on TV know me from "Glee," from something of a different tone.

17. I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.



18. I just officially settled in LA, and I'm giving up the place in Vancouver...A little scary, but it sure looks like I'll be here a lot more than in Canada! 


19. I live in airports.

20. It's been a great opportunity to learn how to sing and dance. I've never done anything like this before. It has also been a challenge performing with seasoned Broadway performers next to me.

21. I've worked as a laborer, driven taxis and school buses, and been a car mechanic - whatever I could do just to get by. But it does mean that I know a little bit about a lot of things.





22. I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game.

23. Maybe it'll be like "The Simpsons," and everybody will remain unchanged. Maybe that's what "Glee"'s about. Maybe this is kind of a stasis show. I don't know.

24. I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.

25. I was at a loose end, and someone suggested that it would be something that I should take a look at, and pretty much offered me free acting classes. On a whim, I was so like: "this might be cool", I was skeptical at first. I don't really see myself doing community theatre, so I really don't know why I would take acting classes, you know what I mean? I was 20, and it just sort of jumped in my lap, I just ran into someone who knew an acting teacher and he referred me to classes. It was suggested to me that I had potential and if I were to pursue it, then I could probably be successful. I had nothing else going on in my life whatsoever at that point; I was a roofer, I was a cab driver. I was doing nothing, right, so I just completely pursued it. I just moved to Vancouver to pursue it.

26. I've been very inspired by Virgin's model of business as a force for good.






27. I guess I'm kind of happy where I'm at, and I take whatever comes and it's a good thing. So I think what I've already been given, as far as being able to do these shows, is such a blessing. It's really cool to be able to do it. It's not a job that a whole lot of people get to do. It's a lot easier than construction.

28. I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan.




29. I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me.

30. At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

31. You've just got to focus on what you're doing, not that America is going to see you in the shower.






32. I remember I'd come home from fifth, sixth grade, and I'd watch "Saved by the Bell" and be like: "I hope my high school experience is like that." And it totally wasn't. It sucked.

33. If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.




34. I spent as little time as I possibly could there. That's kinda what I was like in high school. I wasn't a big scholastic book nut. I think I liked self-guided studies. I was on correspondence for a while. I think taking my own cues.

35. I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole "Hollywood" thing.

36. I'm Canadian, but no, I don't speak French.






37. I see the people in the tabloids, the ones that get bad press, who have kind of gone off the edge, and I try to study them so that I don't do that. It seems like they lost focus at some point - that's the one thing they all have in common.

38. I like Lady Gaga!









39. I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.

40. Singing? I've never done anything. Seriously, up to this point, I wouldn't even go karaoking with my friends. I would never sing in front of people because I was so sensitive about it. Isn't that ironic? Now I'm singing in front of America.

41. I probably tweet every other day, which I know isn't half as much as some people.







42. I think having worked in a department store setting, if my life had not taken a drastically different turn when I became an actor, there's a very high probability I would have continued to work at the department store.

43. I say eat fast and die young.






44. I stole a significant amount of money from a family member. I knew I was going to get caught, but I was so desperate I didn't care. It was a cry for help.

45. (on Lea Michele) Lea is obviously close to me, so it's hard for us to play miserable all the time.




46. I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

47. Well, I'm not 17 or from Ohio, or play on the football team or date cheerleaders, etc...But Finn and I share a certain kind of vulnerability. And Virtue.




48. I took out a whole fireplace and put in broken glass and installed a burner underneath, so it looks like fire on ice. I did that in my bedroom suite. I'm pretty handy.

49. I have a solo deal with Columbia Records. So it's about, do I want to release an album, when can we do it, what kind of album should it be, how should it be released and marketed and what's the right timing? Do I have time to do it? It's all about questions.

50. I used to do tech support for MSN in Canada.

51. How do I put this? "Glee" is like "High School Musical" if "High School Musical" had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.

52. I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like: "Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?" But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

53. I like the idea of dating, but I'm not dating anyone exclusively, particularly right now. It's hard to be in a relationship unless you're ready to go public with it. So it's a lot easier for me to not be in a relationship. I really don't want that part of my life to be tabloid fodder.




54. But when the "Glee" audition came around, my manager literally had to talk me into it. I was petrified to sing in front of anyone.

55. I was dirt-poor. I could barely hold down a job. Eventually, though, I started getting small parts on shows like "Smallville," "Supernatural"…and lots of really bad sci-fi movies. I was running around the woods in wolf contacts, covered in fake blood made out of pancake syrup, roaring.

56. I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense.

57. I'll go out, but I leave early, before the shenanigans. I don't really do the Hollywood party thing. I'd rather watch sports or play video games or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.

58. I'm a pretty good snowboarder but a terrible surfer.

59. I'm a cat whisperer. When I go to people's houses, their cats always like me better than the owners.


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