Glee’s Lea Michele isn’t your typical twentysomething star and she knows it.

“I’m five foot three,” the actress, 25, tells the new Harpers Bazaar. “I don’t look like a lot of other people, you know what I mean? I look like I’m 12.”

And the star is enamored of big-time A-listers who’ve already made it to the big screen — like frequent Glee guest star Gwyneth Paltrow. “I am obsessed with Gwyneth Paltrow…I love talking with Gwyneth. She just gives good advice. She said, ‘Don’t ever read anything about you.’”