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.

Dancing on 'Dancing With The Stars' really broadened my fan base. I jumped off the stage backwards one week, and so many women come up to me now and say, 'You're so brave. I can't believe you put yourself out there like that'. If that inspires some girl out there, then great, because boys aren't the only ones who get to have fun. We get to have fun too.

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

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

High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from 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.

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

'High School Musical' is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.

I look like a child - and I love it!

I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.

I play so young because of my looks.

I think it is important for girls to see movies where it is not all just about 'the boy' or it's simply being about 'the relationship' or 'Am I pretty enough?' or 'Am I cute enough?'.

I've been in the shallow end of a pool, just kind of walking around, but this was my first time really swimming - and I was horrified! I actually lost it whenever I saw the edge of the pool. But I took baby steps and rewarded myself every step of the way.

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

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.

Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion. Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

We used to lift weights a couple of times a week, we did a lot of running. I enjoyed the variety.

I actually have huge respect for Lorne Michaels. I think that guy is really something.

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement, and mystery of the world we live in.

I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.

I think I initially started inventing characters in my songs because I didn't want to write directly about myself. Also, as a kid, I loved all the character names in Beatles songs, like Eleanor Rigby and Lovely Rita and Mean Mr. Mustard and Maxwell and Rocky Raccoon.

It's important to show children love, affection and balance and invest time in their moral upbringing.

When you owe money to people, you're always going to owe money to people, so you should take care of it as soon as possible. It doesn't go away just because you ignore it.

Salary stories are intrusive. Do you ask your neighbour what they earn for their job?

My presence speaks volumes before I say a word.

I have a rule on my team: when we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union salaries go up by a similar percentage.

It's big production. It's huge. It's using studio technology to your benefit. You don't go in and play live and then just take the tapes and get them mastered. You have to create.

Maybe the hardest part of life is just having the courage to try.

The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment of the soul.

The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.

I sometimes think how strange it is that I've got to do exactly what I want, and that is difficult to cope with. You have to remind yourself every few weeks: I'm making this film and this is exactly what I want to do. And suddenly you're happy again.

I'm really into antiques. But really into it because of my father, who got me into them in the first place. He's an interior designer and he's really into going to antique shows and getting up really early on Sundays and driving out to these weird little towns north of Hamilton.

I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.

I don't want to overthrow the government. I wanna fire 'em.

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.