“If the overall quality of your film depends on what you shot it on, you aren’t ready to make a film.”

If you have fun when you practice, you may also learn more and perform better

Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.

One of the easiest shots in golf is chipping. It should be the easiest. It’s like throwing a ball or pitching pennies. It’s easy. And I struggle with that, and the struggle is all mental.

Your touch and your feel for the game is pretty much gone if you don’t work on it – at least get some shots up or dribble the ball.

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

Staying in the moment is not worrying about the outcome but just focusing on the process on the next shot.

For so many years, I was watching my tee shots slide hard to the right.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

I say to the paparazzi, ‘Fellas, take your shot and go.’ It’s just they usually find me on a beach.

I was so ugly my mother used to feed me with a sling shot.