Top 52 Quotes About Cory Monteith: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Cory Monteith

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

#2. 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.

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#3. Evolved? As a dancer? Me? I don't fall down as much, unless it's part of the scripted dance. I don't step on other people's toes anymore. I think if I started the show a one out of ten dancer, now I am a two and a half.

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#4. I say eat fast and die young.

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#5. Life is too short to be serious

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

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#7. 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.

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#8. 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.

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#9. It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up.

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#10. 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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#11. How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.

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#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.

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#13. I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.

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

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#15. 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.

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#16. 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.

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#17. I'm pretty goofy and I make a lot of dumb jokes - life is too short to be serious, so I guess that's how I flirt. To be honest, I think I'm too shy and reserved to be a proper old fashioned flirt.

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

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#19. 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.

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

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#21. When the music hits, you feel no pain, to quote Bob Marley. But it's true. It's like all art and creation: You're completely in the moment, and you just feel free.

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

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#23. Fox taught me how to sing and dance

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#24. 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,

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#25. But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it.

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#26. 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.

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#27. 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.

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

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#29. 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.

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#30. 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.

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#31. If you focus on what you want and you persevere, chances are you succeed. You know, that's what I found. It might not be in acting - it might be in business, financing, it might be in the arts, it might be in anything. But it's all about focusing and being inspired.

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#32. The show must go on all over the place or something.

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#33. 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.

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#34. And everything that comes out of my mouth is gonna be repeated in two-sentence-long bites for the next years of my life. Certain words travel far and wide.

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#35. I've got the rest of my life to be a grown-up. And for now, it's OK to be young.

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#36. 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 videogames or work out or sleep, to be totally honest.

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#37. I like Lady Gaga!

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#38. I'm a pretty good snowboarder but a terrible surfer.

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

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#40. 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.

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#41. Every single day I wake up in the morning, and I wonder if this is some kind of amazing dream that's gonna end all of a sudden. And, you know, I'm gonna wake up and be somewhere else.

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

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#43. 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.

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#44. It's really annoying when you're trying to get to know someone and she doesn't pay attention to you because she's obsessed with her phone.

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#45. 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.

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#46. I've worked as a labourer, 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.

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