Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#1
Posted: 8/3/11 at 5:47pm
It's true, she said so herself.
Link after the jump....
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She's UGLY as hell
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#2
Posted: 8/3/11 at 5:58pmIt Gets Better.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#2
Posted: 8/3/11 at 6:03pm
That's what they said about Travis Acreman!
HA!
Stand-by Joined: 6/2/08
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#3
Posted: 8/5/11 at 12:26amNot pretty enough & not human enough, but there you go. Life is unpredictable.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#4
Posted: 8/5/11 at 12:31am
“I’m five-foot-three,” she muses. “I don’t look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I’m 12.”
She looks like about 90% of the women in the New York/New Jersey area.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#5
Posted: 8/5/11 at 9:55am
Funny, I think she's a total babe.
Take that, "Owen," I said something really nice about Lea!
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#6
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:05amSomehow, I have a hard time believing this is actually true (and not just because LM has been known to, ahem, stretch the truth when it suits her).
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#7
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:22amThe thing that bothers me about this altogether (and I think she's pretty enough, but not a babe) is that you look at some of the great Broadway singers in the past, and you realize that they wouldnt stand a chance today. Merman would get bit parts and character roles. Gertrude Lawrence would be dismissed out of hand. It's pretty sad.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#8
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:25amMaybe she's saying this to try to plant yet another connection between her and Babs in the public's mind. ("They told me I wasn't pretty enough, just like my idol, Barbra!"). Of course Broadway is a bastion for oddballs and beauty queens alike. Of people working today, I'd hardly consider Idina Menzel or Caissie Levy or Nina Arianda or even Sutton Foster traditionally beautiful, but they seem to be working steadily and playing leading lady roles.
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#9
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:32am
Totally agree with AC, Sean, it's not like everybody on Broadway is drop dead gorgeous. Far from it. For every Luker there is a Lupone (with all due respect to the handsome Ms. Lupone, I'm sure she'd be the first to agree that she is not your average glamor girl).
Even in Hollywood for goodness sake. Just consider that Renee, hardly a beauty, is not only a movie star, but got Roxie!
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#10
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:35amI know exactly how she feels. I was told I'm not famous enough to be pretty.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#11
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:52am
Lea Michele told Mister Matt he wasn't pretty enough to be famous 
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#12
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:24amOh no, she's 5'3"! Kristin Chenoweth is 4'11.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#13
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:27am^ Chenoweth. Another person I'd put on the "not traditionally attractive" list. She's doing pretty well for herself, no?
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#14
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:31amHer EGO is bigger then her NOSE...
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#15
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:34am
"I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous"
So was I -- Don Knotts
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#16
Posted: 8/5/11 at 1:44pmNor is she talented enough or humble enough or nice enough. Not being pretty enough is the least of her shortcomings, and yet she's famous. Sometimes good things happen to sh*tty people.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#17
Posted: 8/5/11 at 1:51pm....I think ColorTheHours pretty much hit the nail on the head
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#18
Posted: 8/5/11 at 1:53pmShe could try to be nicer to others, since she knows such pain.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#19
Posted: 8/5/11 at 2:16pm
"I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous"
Even Max Factor couldn't hide my raccoon eyes during Evita - Patti Lupone
Bitch, please - Whoopi Goldberg
I suggest that you marry up - HRH Camilla Parker-Bowles-Mountbatten-Windsor
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#20
Posted: 8/5/11 at 10:47pm
ColortheHours, why would you call Michele a sh*tty person? What has she done that is so terrible? Her only crime from what I can tell is being fame-hungry.
That said, as someone who has had a crush on Lea since "Spring Awakening," I have to admit my admiration for her went down a couple notches after reading this interview. At the age of 26 or whatever she is she has already achieved more than what 99.9% of actors achieve in their entire careers. Rather than declaring that she wants more, she should be expressing gratitude for what she has.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#21
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:02pm
ColortheHours, why would you call Michele a sh*tty person? What has she done that is so terrible? Her only crime from what I can tell is being fame-hungry.
Given the stories I've heard firsthand from people who know her well about how she treats people she deems to be beneath her, or how she can be vindictive, spiteful, jealous, and malicious towards people whom she perceives as a threat to her, ColorThe Hours might not be too far off.
I've met her, like, three times. She was pleasant in each situation. But the stories I've heard could curl my hair.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/03
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#22
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:08pm
.. and pretty much every story about how evil she is toward people is true.
I will tell you first hand that I have seen several tantrums - no, not at a stage door, thanks - and each was not only unwarranted, but SHOCKINGLY bad... and at least one of those was when NO ONE except Ragtime-philes knew who she was.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#23
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:11pm
One of my best friends witnessed an incident at a club where Lea wasn't served because she was under age and she flipped out on everyone. Typical kind of "Don't you know who I am? / I'm too important to be treated this way!" kind of BS. She's lived in a bubble of privilege her whole life. It happens when you've been told since the age of four that you're the greatest thing since the dishwasher.
Lea Michele: I was told I wasn't pretty enough to be famous#24
Posted: 8/5/11 at 11:14pmAnything to gain attention. She makes me want to puke. She's the ONLY Reason I can't watch Glee. If it weren't for her I could probably tolerate it. She's just too gross.
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