“I’ll never try to put on a fake image. I’m just Zac.”

I’m very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog – It’s the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

Every time I go to big events, it’s a trip. I feel like that kid who shouldn’t really be there.

As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better.

Think on your toes, use what’s around you, and come up with something organic and fun.

I like to go and do something adventurous. I like to go out and do some sort of crazy activity.

Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around.

When I’m stylizing, it’s all about accessories.

Like a forced awkward situation is very strange. Especially for me, for some reason.

There’s a way that you can throw negativity out there that seems rebellious. But I’ve always taken pleasure in a different kind of rebellion, which is putting a positive spin on everything, trying to enjoy myself at all times.

I’ve always been singing. Since day one. I started doing musical theater and you have to sing in musical theater and so that’s where I got most of my training.

We shot ‘High School Musical’ in eight weeks. I spent longer rehearsing for ‘Hairspray’ than filming ‘High School Musical’.

The chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there’s only a handful of people that have long careers.

A dog, for me, it’s not just getting a dog. I couldn’t leave him at home.

If you’d have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.

I don’t like to live in fear about things like rumors and backlash to begin with – that’s the way I was raised – but I just can’t see what’s so wrong about being gay.

Sometimes I take a while to get ready to go out. It’s not excessive, but it takes me some time to find clean clothes that match.

Yet the ivory gods, And the ebony gods, And the gods of diamond-jade, Are only silly puppet gods That people themselves Have made.

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it.

Society makes suicide so romantic.

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.

A poet’s work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.