Top 80 Lea Michele Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “I have loved ‘Les Miz’ for so long. It was the first Broadway show I’d ever done.”

— Lea Michele

52. “Britney Spears is definitely my favorite past Candie’s girl; her campaigns were gorgeous.”

— Lea Michele

53. “I always knew that I wanted to work and I knew I wanted to be a singer and 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.”

— Lea Michele

54. “Whether it be current or past, every single song that I recorded is about me. It’s a peek into my life, past and present. Maybe it’s coming from my theater and performance background, but nothing felt right unless I could relate to it.”

— Lea Michele

55. “I want to be in ‘Funny Girl.’ And I want Ryan Murphy to direct it.”

— Lea Michele

56. “New York is who I am.”

— Lea Michele

57. “I’ve always been proud of my body, my Jewish nose and all of that. Hollywood’s Hollywood, but that’s not going to change.”

— Lea Michele

58. “If anything’s going on in our lives, we have each other. One time, I was having a bad day, and I called Chris Colfer. He came over with a pint of ice cream and Madea Goes to Jail, and it was, like, the best night of my life.”

— Lea Michele

59. “Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing.”

— Lea Michele

60. “I worried that people wouldn’t like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.”

— Lea Michele

61. “I don’t see anyone as being different than anyone else, whether you’re gay or straight or whatever – everyone’s the same. That’s how I was raised.”

— Lea Michele

62. “I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow.”

— Lea Michele

63. “I have been involved with ‘Spring Awakening’ for six years. I am 20 now – I just turned 20 in August – and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.”

— Lea Michele

64. “I do have 14 tattoos, but I also do come home every single night and watch reality TV with my cat.”

— Lea Michele

65. “I’m Italian and we curse a lot when we talk.”

— Lea Michele

66. “I always sing Adele in the shower. But everyone should know you never sing an Adele song in public because no one’s better than Adele.”

— Lea Michele

67. “Film is an itch I have yet to scratch.”

— Lea Michele

68. “But my main thing that I would love to see as a fan of ‘Glee,’ like I said, is to really get into the character and who they are and what they do outside of school. I think that that’s interesting. And then of course the themed stuff and the album episodes are all really cool too.”

— Lea Michele

69. “I was in choir in school. I kind of just did it. I already knew I wanted to sing. My music program in my school wasn’t really great – people didn’t really want to be part of the choir, they didn’t want to do the plays and stuff like that. It definitely wasn’t the cool thing to do.”

— Lea Michele

70. “I’m such a fan of Idina Menzel! I think she’s made a wonderful career in this business. I love her so much, and any role she’s played, I’d love to be able to follow in her footsteps.”

— Lea Michele

71. “When I wasn’t working on Broadway, I worked in a Bat Mitzvah dress shop and was the Cinderella of the shop – always cleaning and vacuuming!”

— Lea Michele

72. “I know this is going to sound really cheesy, but I have the coolest dad in the entire world. My dad is hilarious. He’s also strong, smart and makes me feel like he’s going to take care of everything. I think those are the qualities I look for in a boyfriend.”

— Lea Michele

73. “I’m honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.”

— Lea Michele

74. “I don’t look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I’m 12.”

— Lea Michele

75. “I’ve always been such a fan of Habitat for Humanity and the work that they do.”

— Lea Michele

76. “I’ve always been inspired by female performers and artists who really surround who they are around their voice. For me, it’s always been about the voice. I wanna hear someone just sit by a piano, on a stool, and just sing – and that’s it!”

— Lea Michele

77. “I knew what I wanted to be at 8 years old – an actor!”

— Lea Michele

78. “I worked consistently on Broadway from when I was 8 years old through ‘Spring Awakening,’ which I left in 2008.”

— Lea Michele

79. “When I was a little kid, my mother and I used to watch the Golden Globes and I would dress up and she would get sparkling apple cider and we would make a tray of hors doeuvres and watch it together. And I would get up and make a pretend speech.”

— Lea Michele

80. “I like it when a movie scares the s – t out of me. That, for me, is just the best.”

— Lea Michele

81. “When it comes to ‘Glee,’ I feel like I’ve been in a relationship, and now I can mingle a bit.”

— Lea Michele

82. “I would love Kate Middleton to be in ‘Glee.’ Wouldn’t that be fantastic? That would be great.”

— Lea Michele

83. “I’m a relationship girl. I would rather be long-distance than not have a relationship at all.”

— Lea Michele

84. “Los Angeles has been good to me.”

— Lea Michele

85. “I have such a passion because I adore animals so much.”

— Lea Michele

86. “It’s so important, so comforting, to have lampposts in this world who can light the way.”

— Lea Michele

87. “I’ve known since day one of working on ‘Spring Awakening’ – back in 1999 – that it was special.”

— Lea Michele

88. “ThisBigGoldStar- It’s a metaphor for me being a star.”

— Lea Michele