Top 80 Lea Michele Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Uniqueness is what makes you the most beautiful.”

— Lea Michele

2. “If you believe in yourself you can make yourself whatever you want to be.”

— Lea Michele

3. “I’m a really big animal lover.”

— Lea Michele

4. “I feel like the luckiest girl in the world.”

— Lea Michele

5. “I love horses so much. Horses are my life.”

— Lea Michele

6. “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.”

— Lea Michele

7. “I love myself, the way I look, my body, but sometimes I can’t help but feel insecure.”

— Lea Michele

8. “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.”

— Lea Michele

9. “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.”

— Lea Michele

10. “Find something you’re passionate about and you know, do something.”

— Lea Michele

11. “I love being outdoors – hiking, biking, and swimming.”

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12. “You don’t need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.”

— Lea Michele

13. “I’m overjoyed and beyond honored to be a part of the L’Oreal Paris family. I’m such a fan of L’Oreal Paris not just for all of their amazing products, but for what they stand for.”

— Lea Michele

14. “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.”

— Lea Michele

15. “It is important to have someone that supports you and encourage you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him.”

— Lea Michele

16. “Trust me, sunscreen is so, so, so important and so I always wear sunscreen, but I still get really tan.”

— Lea Michele

17. “I can’t believe it’s been four years now, and from watching that pilot, we really all looked like babies. It’s unbelievable just how far everything has come. I’m happier now than I’ve ever been on the show and in my life. I really owe so much of my happiness to ‘Glee.’”

— Lea Michele

18. “When I was on Broadway, my most recent Broadway show was ‘Spring Awakening,’ and every night I did a topless scene.”

— Lea Michele

19. “I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in ‘Dirty Dancing’ – these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it’s great that everyone on ‘Glee’ is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.”

— Lea Michele

20. “I’m simple. I love hiking, going to the gym, doing some simple stuff. I love being outdoors, I love bike riding. Just stuff that’s fun!”

— Lea Michele

21. “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.”

— Lea Michele

22. “Listen, if you were with me on a plane? I’m embarrassed for the people who sit next to me. I have such a regimen! I, like, pound on the face cream because your face will dry out, I get the stuff you put in your nose so no nose germs come in, I take elderberry for immunity, I wear a scarf.”

— Lea Michele

23. “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.”

— Lea Michele

24. “Grief is a very scary thing, and there comes a point where it can really take you down.”

— Lea Michele

25. “Growing up in New York has influenced my style so much, and I have an amazing relationship with my stylist, Estee Stanley. We have so much fun with the whole process. She picks out dresses, I try things on and play dress up, and we get creative to see what works.”

— Lea Michele

26. “I’m dating my celebrity crush!”

— Lea Michele

27. “I didn’t know I could sing until I auditioned for ‘Les Miserables.’ My friend was auditioning, and I wanted to audition too.”

— Lea Michele

28. “By showing that you don’t have to lose yourself, maybe someone else will feel some sort of comfort.”

— Lea Michele

29. “I think I’m his biggest fan. Like, I’m really sorry everybody out there but you have a tough time beating me. I’m like the number one Chris Colfer fan club.”

— Lea Michele

30. “I’m Italian and Spanish and Jewish. I’m 100 different things meshed into one. I think that shows girls that uniqueness is beautiful. They can look at me on a magazine cover and see me in a movie and say that they have someone they can relate to.”

— Lea Michele

31. “I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything. I really like to eat my food.”

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32. “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.”

— Lea Michele

33. “My mother’s side is Italian; my father’s side is Jewish. We’re the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.”

— Lea Michele

34. “I was one of the only girls in my high school that didn’t get a nose job. And if anybody needed it, I probably did. I’m proud to be on a positive show and to be a voice for girls and say, You don’t need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.”

— Lea Michele

35. “Theatre just fills me up so much.”

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36. “Sarfati. That’s my real last name. I don’t use it a lot because I got ‘Lea So-fatty,’ ‘Lea So-farty’ at school.”

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37. “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.”

— Lea Michele

38. “One of my favorite things about ‘Spring Awakening’ is that it is enjoyable and important for both kids and adults to see.”

— Lea Michele

39. “I’m a vegan. It makes me feel really good and bright.”

— Lea Michele

40. “I’d love to be able to play all different roles, whether it’s Maureen in Rent or Maria in West Side Story. I would just love to be involved in this business forever.”

— Lea Michele

41. “Well, everything with being vegan and vegetarian is a really big commitment. You have to do what you feel is best and what you believe in and what your body is telling you that it needs. I really think everyone should do what’s best for them, and what’s best for me may not be best for someone else.”

— Lea Michele

42. “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.”

— Lea Michele

43. “But people are going to say what they want to say. I know who I am, and I’m not perfect.”

— Lea Michele

44. “My idea of heaven used to be relaxing at home with a cheese plate and champagne.”

— Lea Michele

45. “Growing up on stage, I was introduced to makeup at a young age and I will never forget the first time I tried on a L’Oreal Paris iconic lipstick – it was instant glamour and I’ve been hooked ever since.”

— Lea Michele

46. “I don’t go out to clubs. You’ll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.”

— Lea Michele

47. “I love my onscreen frenemy, Dianna Agron! Having the opportunity to work so closely with her has been amazing.”

— Lea Michele

48. “How many managers told me, ‘Get a nose job. You’re not pretty enough?’ But I proved them wrong.”

— Lea Michele

49. “I make a vegan baked ziti. And even though that doesn’t sound enjoyable, it really is.”

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50. “I don’t think I’ve gone a day in my life without being inspired by Celine Dion. If you would’ve seen me at her concert in Las Vegas – like, I’m surprised I didn’t get kicked out. I was literally sitting at the edge of my seat like the happiest girl in the entire universe.”

— Lea Michele