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

You don't really know how beautiful a girl is, until you meet her, all her beauty is in her personality.

Personally, I was never the cool kid. I was always sort of a bookworm.

I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

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

If I splurge on anything, it's cologne. I love smelling good.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.

I wish I could say I see my little brother more. We used to fight all the time but now that I don't see him very often I cherish the time I have with him.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

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!

Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.

Life demands that we live to care for others instead of living to care for self

So this is how the rich bleed--elegantly.

Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.

Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution.

You bet I arrived overnight. Over a few hundred nights in the Catskills, in vaudeville, in clubs and on Broadway.

When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

It was loud in spots and less loud in other spots, and it had that quality which I have noticed in all violin solos of seeming to last much longer than it actually did.

You are the light of the world. Shine, and darkness will disappear.