Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

It's an immense amount of pressure, celebrity itself.

Well let me tell you what [High School Musical] is really about. High School Musical is about this group of boys who are all being molested by the basketball coach, who is Zac Efron's dad. It's about them struggling to cope with this molestation. And they have these little girlfriends, who are their beards. Oh, and somehow there's music involved. You have to get stoned to watch it.

My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.

Once you let the words go, you have no control over how they're printed or what the media does with them. So there's no point in trying to make plans or to control it.

I need to behave in a way that will cause people to take me seriously.

Because everyone is someone's child, every woman seems like someone's mother.