Vanessa Hudgens

My first real kiss came when I was 10, and it was in an acting class. I had to do a scene from a movie where someone gets kissed under a tree, and I did not want to do it! But my acting partner wanted me to feel comfortable, so he bought a picnic basket with all these snacks. He made such an effort – and it was cute.

Guys act strange around me. I swear I don’t know why!

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

[on her mom] She always knows what to do to cheer me up. Whenever I feel down, my mom will take me shopping or out to lunch. she’s 100% there for me, and always has been. My family keeps me going no metter what.

So many people try to grow up too fast, and it’s not fun! You should stay a kid as long as possible!

My younger sister and I had the same modeling agency.

It takes a lot of time, commitment and a choice. I’ve chosen this path, but it’s not to say I’m not open to love or whatever comes my way. You never close doors.

It’s just such a tangled-up issue, the way women present themselves [in comedy]-whether or not they choose to put their thumbs in their panties on the cover of Maxim and judge each other back and forth on it. It’s a complicated issue, and we didn’t go much further on saying anything other than to say, ‘Yeah, it’s a complicated issue and we’re all kind of figuring it out as we go.’

I’ve been scared and I’ve liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I’m in my comfort zone.

For a while I was like, “Oh my God, anyone that would release an album as an actor is the biggest fool ever”, but I happened to have sung all my life before I was an actor. Why are musicians allowed to become actors? No one ever gives them flack for that.

It’s OK to quote from your past. But I’m more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

Cats know, comin’ out of four, they better be standin’ on it, else they’ll be standin’ in it.

America’s Got Talent’ has really opened a lot of doors for me. I want to do a lot more TV.

I started working on trying to sound like June from the very beginning.

The craziest thing I’ve ever done to get a guy’s attention? I admit I stalked someone. I showed up at a restaurant where I knew the guy worked, and we were actually good friends and had lost touch, and I pretended that I didn’t know he worked there. And then ran into him and, “Oh my God, you work here? I had no idea.” It’s the most manipulative thing I’ve done in my entire life, but it all worked out very well, so I have no regrets.

There’s nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that’s a fact.

[on sleeping with Trump] I’m very food-motivated. That’s why I stayed and held out for so long because I was told there would be snacks. I was starving! Maybe that’s part of why I was easy prey because I was light-headed.

There is no diet for a big ego.

Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

By the way, when Oprah Winfrey is suggesting you may have overextended yourself, you need to examine your f**ing life.

I have learned a lot about myself and come to deal with a lot of things that, at first, bothered me.