In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act and you're in the audience

I went to a local high school in Lancaster. Not much I can say about it; it was pretty much your typical public high school back in Pennsylvania.

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

Just follow your joy. Always. I think that if you do that, life will take you on the course that it's meant to take you.

If I were to be back on Glee, I would like to spend some time with Lea Michele because I love her and we go way back.

But at the same time, my parents always encouraged my brother and me to be happy with what we were doing. My parents were athletes in high school; my mom and my dad were the stars of the basketball team, but they never pushed my brother and me to be anything we didn't want to be.

Make sure that you always follow your heart and your gut, and let yourself be who you want to be, and who you know you are. And don't let anyone steal your joy.