Fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting.

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.

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

Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have.

Now is as good a time as any to send up a prayer.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

I love metaphor. It provides two loaves where there seems to be one. Sometimes it throws in a load of fish.

I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.

New York will be my home for the rest of my life as far as I'm concerned.

Free all the prisoners everywhere, all they want is truth and justice, all they need is love and care.

I don't know how I absorb things, but I do. I just absorb them. I don't over read the script, and I don't really ever spend much time learning it.

Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

He's like a drug for you, Bella. I see that you can't live without him now. It's too late. But I would have been healthier for you. Not a drug; I would have been the air, the sun.