Lea Michele Quotes
“Find something you’re passionate about and you know, do something.”
“If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.”
“The biggest limits are the ones you make for yourself.”
“I think everyone should do what they feel is best for them and not what other people think they should do or try to fit themselves into a mold. It’s about listening to yourself and truly knowing what makes you happy.”
“Getting to the other side takes a lot of work. All you can do is get to the other side. It’s a struggle. When you do, there is happiness there.”
“No matter how you feel, get up. Dress up. Show up. And never give up.”
“I’m never complacent, I’m never passive; I’m always looking for the next opportunity. My dad taught me how to hustle.”
“Confidence is what makes you stand out.”
“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!”
“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.”
“I think that at a certain point, you can choose to sort of fall from this or you can choose to rise.”
“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.”
“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 would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don’t try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.”
“It’s possible to live a really fun lifestyle that’s still grounded and centered.”
“At the end of the day, we have to remember that what we put out there, it manifests and it creates energy and you should want to be the person that chooses to take that second to do something positive.”
“Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.”
“You don’t need to look like everybody else. Love who you are. How many managers told me, ‘Get a nose job. You’re not pretty enough.’ But I proved them wrong.”
“Remember it starts inside; to feel truly beautiful you have to love yourself inside and out.”
“I am a very outspoken person, and if something makes me uncomfortable, you will know that it makes me uncomfortable, but that’s as far as it goes.”
“I didn’t want to fit any mold. I wanted it to be something that couldn’t be replicated by anyone else.”
“By showing that you don’t have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort.”
“Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing.”
“Just because you love something doesn’t mean it has to consume your days. It can just add richness and texture to your life.”
“It’s just really important I think for fashion to be affordable, because everyone should have the opportunity to wear cute things and be happy and comfortable in what they are wearing. That’s definitely how I like to shop and how I like to think about clothes and fashion.”
“I don’t stop. It’s my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I need some ‘me time.’ I have to remember to rest, because I have a natural energy and I don’t want to burn out.”
“I won my first dance competition when I was three months old.”
“I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and an actor. I knew what I wanted to be at eight years old: 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. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.”
“I consider myself lucky to be an only child because if I had other siblings, my mother would not have been able to take me to every audition and be so supportive of my career.”
“When I’m not working, I’m at home with my cat, with my family, with my boyfriend, with the people that I love—and that’s how I reset, and that’s how I center myself. It’s so important to tune out the noise and the unnecessary, and just focus on the people that you love because they know you better than anyone.”
“Every now and then, I have blissful moments of thanking God for all the amazing things that are happening. When I leave the White House after just meeting Obama or when I see my face on the cover of Rolling Stone or when I meet someone who tells me that their daughter is inspired by me, those are moments that are incredibly joyful. I’m honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.”
“I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I’m a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.”
“Working out for me is something I do when I feel like it. But it’s really about feeling good and taking care of my body rather than having to fit into any sort of model or anything like that. I try to eat well, and everything I do is really just to make me feel my best so that I can come to my job or my personal life and just feel really good.”
“You should make your diet one that best fits you and how you feel. Listen to your body. The most important thing is to exercise, drink lots of water, and take really good care of yourself.”
“I believe starting on the inside creates true beauty on the outside. Practicing self-love, eating well, being active and always laughing.”
“It is important to have someone that supports you and encourages you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world. In this lifetime, if there is anything you need, it’s a best friend.”
“If anything’s going on in our lives, we have each other.”
“I wanted to make sure that I was okay with me, feeling strong and feeling happy on my own. I didn’t want anybody to fill any holes for me. I wanted to make sure that I was a whole person again, and that no one was coming into my life to put me back together. I needed to do that on my own.”
“Nowadays being anonymous is worse than being poor. Fame is the most important thing in our culture now. And if there is one thing I’ve learned it is that no one is just going to hand it to you.”
“Everybody thinks you’re a star with roses being dropped at your feet. You have to take some f*cking punches. Now I have my groove. I am much more aware. I also don’t care as much. I am very content with me.”
“It’s really about making that commitment in your relationship. I’m so grateful to get to say that I experienced true love and I think that a lot of people unfortunately don’t. They’ll go a whole lifetime without this experience. I did and I consider myself so lucky. It takes me back to the best time of my life.”
“You have one life. I didn’t really understand what that meant until recently. You have to live your life to the fullest and you have to love as hard as you can love.”
“I’m very happy and I think that you can tell. I don’t really talk a lot about my personal life, but I’m also the kind of person where I always say, ‘You will see how happy I am just by looking at my face.’ I can’t hide it.”
“I worried that people wouldn’t like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.”
“People are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I’m not perfect.”
“You really just have to push that all aside and keep your world safe and strong.”
“I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. So much to be grateful for.”
