“The one you actually get to do when you’re filming, and then the one you wish you would have done, afterward.”

A girl can tell I like her when I blush or start telling bad jokes.

I don’t like to spend a lot of money on designer clothes, but I do like to look good.

I grew up being into sports and I wasn’t trained to move my body in the right way for dancing.

Every actor has three versions of each scene – the one that you rehearse the night before, in your bedroom.

The most important thing for me is honesty. Just be honest and up front. I think that’s the hardest.

I don’t know if I believe in love at first sight, but of course I believe in two people having chemistry right away.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

For me as an actor, there’s only so many things I can do, and this is a way, through a film, to teach and hopefully get the message out to young kids.

I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I’m still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.

I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not.

So singing on stage, you just inevitably, when you’re around other vocal artists, you get better at singing.

Little Zac had it easy – but he didn’t realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted.

I wish I could say I see my little brother more.

High School Musical is what got me here today and I’m very grateful – but the fame part isn’t so fun.

I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he’s a good guy and really humble.

I don’t think music is done by any means. I would love to do it again but it’s finding the right thing.

When you relate to thoughts obsessively, you are actually feeding them because thoughts need your attention to survive. Once you begin to pay attention to them and categorize them, then they become very powerful.

To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live.

There’s a reason why there’s a problem with bodies, and it’s because you never actually get to see any normal versions of them.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

There are moments when the inner life actually ‘pays,’ when years of self-scrutiny, conducted for no ulterior motive, are suddenly of practical use.

We actually did perform it in front of all those thousands of people. And just beforehand, we had a little dress rehearsal, and there were all these famous wrestlers going around and watching as well. Terrifying.

When I was in college, I actually had them change the starting lineup to say ‘from Robbins, Illinois’ instead of ‘Chicago, Illinois.’

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.