“You never know what`s going to be big. It`s the fans. It was just a Disney Channel Movie and the kids made it huge... For High School Musical 2 (2007) (TV), we just wanted to have fun and make something together.” KnowsMadeBigsKidsWantedSchoolTogetherFunFansTvsHugeHigh SchoolMusicalMade ItHaving FunHigh School MusicalDisney Channel Author:Ashley Tisdale
“When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, the guy who got me into acting, he encouraged me to get the lead in a musical. They didn't have any guys.” SchoolGuyActingTeacherGeniusDramaHigh SchoolMusicalIncrediblesLead InFreshman Author:Casey Affleck
“I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.” ThinkingYearsSchoolForeverHigh SchoolRootsMusicalThemeTeenageTeenage YearsSchool Years Author:Patrick Wilson
“I feel Britannia High is aimed at an older audience than High School Musical. Britannia High is more of a serious drama, with the music and dance on top.” FeelsSchoolAudienceSeriousDramaHigh SchoolMusicalMusic And DanceHigh School Musical Author:Mitch Hewer
“If you'd have asked me when I was auditioning for High School Musical if I ever thought I was going to play a Marine.” IfsPlaySchoolHigh SchoolMusicalMarineHigh School Musical Author:Zac Efron
“I can tell that fame is probably the most unadorable thing about acting. High School Musical is what got me here today and I'm very grateful - but the fame part isn't so fun.” I CanTodaySchoolFunActingFameHigh SchoolGratefulMusicalHigh School Musical Author:Zac Efron
“Other than a few years of piano as a kid, I don't have all that much musical training. I played piano for all the musicals in high school and was in a few bands, but never really considered music as a viable career until I was in college.” YearsKidsSchoolCareersCollegeBandTrainingHigh SchoolMusicalPiano Author:John Keltonic
“I was actually home-schooled, so I never had the opportunity of going to prom. No-one invited me, I didn't have a good friend like Ashley at the time, that's why High School Musical's been so much fun for me because I got to experience my prom through it. There were amazing friends and I got to wear really cool dresses. It was a fantasy.” HomeSchoolOpportunityFunFantasyHigh SchoolDressesMusicalGood FriendInvitedReally CoolSchooledPromHigh School MusicalAmazing Friend Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“I want to grow up, live my life, experience things, make movies about those experiences and by the time the audience catches up, hopefully they'll have a movie there that helps them get through that next phase when they discover life isn't always like High School Musical.” WantHelpingSchoolNextGrowsAudienceGrowing UpHigh SchoolMusicalHopefullyLife ExperiencePhasesLiving My LifeHigh School Musical Author:Zac Efron
“Before High School Musical, I wanted to be a nitty-gritty actress. And High School Musical came along, and, I was like, "Oh my God, fun!" But the more we did it, the more prude I became.... When I am around kids and they come up to me, of course I am going to act a certain way, but at the end of the day, I'm doing this for myself. I'm going to be doing movies kids can't watch.” WayEndsKidsWantedSchoolCertainCoursesFunWatchesHigh SchoolMusicalCome UpActressesThe End Of The DayPrudesHigh School Musical Author:Vanessa Hudgens
“From the time I was a kid, I'd never joined groups. I hated high school groups. I hung out with hippies, musical people. I hung out with whomever I found compelling and interesting and smart. And I continued to do that throughout my life.” PeopleKidsSchoolFoundInterestingGroupsSmartHigh SchoolMusicalHatedCompellingHungHippie Author:Sandra Bernhard
“There has been a whole lot. Just to combine a musical career with the last year on high school was enough as it is. I didn't think it should fare as well as it did, but apparently it did.” ThinkingShouldYearsWellsHas BeensEnoughWholeSchoolLastsCareersHigh SchoolMusicalLast Year Author:Lene Marlin
“When I was 18 years old, I went on the road with my dad after I graduated from high school. And we were riding on the tour bus one day, kind of rolling through the South, and he mentioned a song. We started talking about songs, and he mentioned one, and I said I don't know that one. And he mentioned another. I said I don't know that one either, Dad, and he became very alarmed that I didn't know what he considered my own musical genealogy.” KnowsYearsKindSaidSchoolSongMy OwnTalkingDadOne DayHigh SchoolSouthMusicalMy DadBusRidingRollingGenealogy Author:Rosanne Cash
“I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.” MatterSchoolInfluenceBandMajorsHigh SchoolNo Matter WhatJazzMusicalFeaturesJazz BandMusical Influence Author:Wyclef Jean
“My musical background in Tyler, Texas was quite outstanding. Uh, I grew up with, uh, with high school teachers who were in bands, they could play music. And we had a nine piece band there in Tyler, and I joined them when I was about, oh, 15 years old and traveled all over Texas in that band, playing for the elite oil people. Hah. And um, I was making about 50 bucks a night, and uh, it taught me, they taught me how to find my timing and to learn the songs that I wanted.” PeopleYearsPlayWantedSchoolNightSongTeacherPiecesTaughtGrewBandGrew UpHigh SchoolMusicalOilNineBackgroundsTexasElitesTimingTraveledOutstandingBucksSchool TeachersHigh School Teachers Author:Carl Gardner
“In high school I went to the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. And this is like Fame. It's like that sort of prototypical, dancers in the hallway, theater students, musical students, art geeks. And it was a kindergarten in the truest sense of the world: a children's garden where I was able to sort of really come into myself as an artist, as a person, sexuality issues - like, all of this became something where there was a firming-up and a knowing that went on.” WorldChildrenPersonsArtAbleSchoolArtistKnowingIssuesStudentsFameHigh SchoolGardenTheaterMusicalSexualityDancerLos AngelesGeekCountyTruestKindergartenHallways Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways.” SchoolNumbersHigh SchoolMusicalUp And DownHallwaysDork Author:Amy Adams
“How do I put this? 'Glee' is like 'High School Musical' if 'High School Musical' had its stomach punched and its lunch money stolen.” IfsSchoolHigh SchoolMusicalStomachLunchStolenGleeHigh School Musical Author:Cory Monteith
“I went to performing arts high school, and I took dance and acting every day. Then, I went to Marymount Manhattan College and I have a B.A. in acting, with a concentration in theater performance and a minor in musical theater. I studied there for three years.” YearsArtSchoolThreeActingCollegeHigh SchoolPerformancesTheaterMusicalPerformingConcentrationThree YearsMinorsManhattanPerforming ArtsMusical Theater Author:Jenna Ushkowitz
“The top two movies at the box office this weekend were 'High School Musical 3' and 'Saw V.' One movie features gruesome onscreen torture that is difficult to watch and the other is about a guy with a saw.” TwoSchoolGuyDifficultWatchesSawsOfficeHigh SchoolMusicalBoxesFeaturesTortureWeekendBox OfficeHigh School Musical Author:Conan O'Brien
“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.” WellsLittlesSchoolBoysWatchesStruggleGroupsDadInvolvedBasketballHigh SchoolLet MeMusicalCoachesGirlfriendBeardBasketball CoachMolestationHigh School Musical Author:Megan Fox
“I definitely wasn’t cool in high school. I really wasn’t. I did belong to many of the clubs and was in leadership on yearbook and did the musical theater route, so I had friends in all areas, but I certainly did not know what to wear, did not know how to do my hair, all those things.” KnowsSchoolKnow HowHairHigh SchoolAreasTheaterMusicalClubsRoutesMusical TheaterYearbook Author:Dianna Agron
“High School Musical is definitely the best thing that's happened to my career and I walked away with great friends from it.” SchoolCareersHappenedHigh SchoolMusicalBest ThingsGreat FriendHigh School Musical Author:Monique Coleman
“High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.” Has BeensSchoolBlessingHigh SchoolMusicalHigh School Musical Author:Zac Efron