“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.”

It’s hard to film underwater. It really is tricky.

Amanda Bynes and I have become close since filming ‘Hairspray.’ It’s so weird because I grew up watching her.

Every time you make a movie you have to confront your fears.

I try to be green as much as I can and it’s hard. I feel like I’m never doing enough.

Dating is kind of hard. Like dinner or something like that.

You always have to remember that bullies want to bring you down because you have something that they admire.

In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left.

Also, when you get made fun of-when people point out your weaknesses, it’s an opportunity for you to rise above.

I love action-adventure-type films – mythical adventures like ‘Lord of the Rings’ or superhero films like ‘Batman.’

Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

I’ve always loved dogs. I grew up with them and I love working with them. They’re really fun.

I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.

When you’re young everything feels like the end of the world, but its not; its just the beginning.

It’s the moms who are overaggressive. A lot of times their daughters are very sweet and cordial, and the moms tend to grab you and scream and want to kiss you.

The more attention you give to the paparazzi, the more it just, like, validates everything . . .

I’m more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery.

When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody’s business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

Courage! Do not fall back; in a little the place will be yours.

I’m a mama’s boy because everything I do is with respect to my mother.

It’s not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

Nothing left to do but smile.

The secret of happiness is something to do.