“I’m a guy, but I’m not afraid to cry. Not all of the time. But when I’m watching a movie, I’ll sometimes shed a tear, especially ‘Moulin Rouge’.”

I rebounded the ball and passed it – to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!

Life should be fun not dumb

I’ve grown up a lot, I’m on my own, and I’ve learned some valuable life lessons.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater.

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.

All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation.

Hip-hop is really standoffish. It’s really competitive and it’s really about who’s number one all the time. Sometimes it gets out of hand.

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn’t prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

At all times, in every century, every age, there has been such a connection between despotism and religion that it is infinitely apparent and demonstrated a thousand times over, that in destroying one, the other must be undermined.

I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.