Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone stea….

I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing is good and you really feel….

In theater, you're in charge of your performance, and at the end of the day you're the one who gets credit because you're in front of the audience do….

At the end of the day, the end of the movie is sort of ambiguous - it's whatever you want it to be..

My mother's side of the family is Methodist, which is how I was raised. It was conservative in that I had strong values - sitting down and eating wit….

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful..

My grandfather used to say 'Eat the biggest crabs first, that way you're always eating the biggest crabs.' In making a TV show, that means if you hav….

But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my….

I sort of have the belief that you work being your character out while you're working on it, or that's been my experience so far. I throw myself into….

When you get to really involve yourself with a piece [script] and the other people and you get to feel like it's a community and you're all building ….

We didn't have a glee club at my school. It depends on what area of the States you're from. It's more in the Midwest..

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you'….

I definitely prefer the single camera better. For me it's the simple fact that I enjoy working in front of an audience, but when you're trying to cre….

If I were to be back on Glee, I would like to spend some time with Lea Michele because I love her and we go way back..

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania..

I'm kind of whatever about nudity. Hopefully I wouldn't be a part of anything, whether I'm naked or not, that I didn't believe in. But I'm pretty com….

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you..