“I don’t understand how some people would want fame so bad that they’d go out and get negative attention to earn it.”

I’ve always cared about fashion and what I look like.

I can tell that fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

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

Honesty is most important, and it’s difficult when you’re young and single and sort of figuring out your own life.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it’s the only way you can test how far you can really go.

I can’t explain to you what it’s like to be a heartthrob. I don’t think I am a heartthrob.

I’m looking for a life partner and I’m not ready. I’m not emotionally mature enough.

You don’t have goggles, so you can’t see anything.

Hopefully they’ll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn’t always like High School Musical.

I think the most important thing for me in a relationship is honesty.

If you really want your hair to look good, just don’t wash it for a day. That’s my secret.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it’s the only way you can test how far you can really go.

One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in.

I think if you’re fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk… why do that?

Don’t get me wrong – I’ve gone to a club. But I’d much rather be with my close friends at home or a concert, or on a trip. I’ll go dancing with my grandma. She likes to cut a rug!

I guess I did have my young love. I did everything to impress her. Everything possible. It was just ridiculous.

Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries

Some local boys come in and there is a bit of chat between them and the fish-fryer about whether the kestrel under the counter is for sale.

If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.

I have had some problems because the French don’t like people to have success, they don’t like the number one.

All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.

For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.

At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink) thoughts occur like.

For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.