Cory Monteith Quotes

• 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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  "Cory Monteith's Turning Point". Interview with Shawna Malcom, parade.com. June 24, 2011.

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• I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense. I guess I'm kind of happy where I'm at, and I take whatever comes, and it's a good thing.

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• I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive.

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  "'Glee' TV star Monteith found dead", www.foxnews.com. July 14, 2013.

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• Life is too short to be serious

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• 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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  "Fun Fearless Males 2011: Cory Monteith". Interview with Korin Miller, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2011.

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

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  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

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  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• I was 20 years old, working as a roofer and a telemarketer and driving a taxi, just barely getting by. A friend of a friend suggested I try acting. I was like, 'Why? What am I going to do? Community theater?' But I took a class, and the teacher thought that I had potential, so I moved to Vancouver and started auditioning.

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  "O-M-Glee: Lea Michele and Cory Monteith". Interview with Lauren Waterman, www.teenvogue.com. November 14, 2010.

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• My life has changed in almost every way but I couldn’t be more grateful. I couldn’t be happier - I feel like the luckiest guy in the world.

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• At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

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  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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• My past made me who I am today. I can’t just pretend it never happened. But the biggest lesson I learnt from that, is that I can be an example for others who are still struggling! There’s always hope and help for everyone. I think it’s my responsibility to do that, to help. I always refer to this as the “moment of clarity”. It’s hard to explain what really happened, but it was a once in a lifetime kind of moment. I had reached my lowest point and I just knew things had to change quickly because there was just no other way, you know.

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

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• 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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  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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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  "Fun Fearless Males 2011: Cory Monteith". Interview with Korin Miller, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2011.

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• 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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  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I didn't have any definition of self. I never fit in, so I started pretending I was other people. I'd find people I thought were cool and dress how they dressed, talk how they talked, do whatever they were into. This led to a period of drugs and anchohol. When his family gave him an ultimatum to get clean or they'd report him to the police Corey said, "I was done fighting myself. I finally said, "I'm gonna start looking at my life and figure out why I'm doing this.

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• Fox taught me how to sing and dance

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• 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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  Source: www.girl.com.au

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• 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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  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

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  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Just be you...'cause that's good enough for me!

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

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  "Fictional character: Finn Hudson". TV Series "Glee" ("A Night of Neglect", 2011), www.imdb.com. 2009–2015.

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