I don't need to be wildly famous for my life to make sense. Cory Monteith More Quotes by Cory Monteith More Quotes From Cory Monteith Be nice to everyone, always smile & appreciate things because it could all be gone tomorrow. Cory Monteith smile nice appreciation I want to get married and have children and live happily ever after. That's important to me. Cory Monteith important want children 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. Cory Monteith hard-work opportunity thinking I don't have to hide or be somebody I'm not. I don't have to compromise. I can just be myself. Cory Monteith compromise i-can Life is too short to be serious Cory Monteith life-is-too-short serious life-is 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. Cory Monteith responsibility struggle past Just be you...'cause that's good enough for me! Cory Monteith good-enough causes enough It's all about perseverance. Absolute perseverance. You can always get back up. Cory Monteith get-back absolutes perseverance But for those people who might give up: Get real about what you want and go after it. Cory Monteith giving-up real people I've got the rest of my life to be a grown-up. And for now, it's OK to be young. Cory Monteith be-young young At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them. Cory Monteith realizing parent decision 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. Cory Monteith focus acting art I say eat fast and die young. Cory Monteith die-young dies young 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. Cory Monteith flirting life-is-too-short thinking I'm lucky on so many counts - I'm lucky to be alive. Cory Monteith lucky-to-be-alive alive lucky The show must go on all over the place or something. Cory Monteith shows goes-on I'm a cat whisperer. When I go to people's houses, their cats always like me better than the owners. Cory Monteith cat house people 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. Cory Monteith grateful guy world 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. Cory Monteith fighting self people How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen. Cory Monteith lunch musical school
