My character, Taylor McKessie, is a little bit brighter in the math and science department than I am... okay, a lot.

I have a gajillion headbands - yellows, pinks, reds, blues. I'm obsessed.

I was babysitting the night High School Musical premiered last year. I watched with the kids and we sang along to the lyrics. I was making $12 an hour.

I'm good in the kitchen. I can cook seafood, collard greens, black-eyed peas.

In case of emergency, do whatever your best friends tell you to do!

I'm an adventurer. I believe in being bold and brave - and taking risks. Even if I'm afraid of something, I'll still have a go at it.

As an African American actress there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.

If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.

Do your own thing; always follow your dreams and don't feel limited by what someone prescribes to you as to what you should do. Expand your horizons, try new things, be adventurous.

When I get recognized, every time feels like the first time.

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

Alcohol kills slowly. Good, I'm in no hurry.

I should like to have been killed in the war.

Try to do exactly as you are taught without complaining or quibbling.

Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.

To promote laughter without joining in it greatly heightens the effect.

You know, Taylor, I told his manager that your reputation in this firm is that you can go head-to-head with any man. And win.

Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.

The bond between true lovers is as close as we come to what endures forever.