I Have No Reason To Influence People. I Just Want To Have It All For Myself. I Just Want Someone To Pat Me On The Back. (laugh) It's Crazy. It Seems Just Completely Ridiculous. I Don't Know Why. I Mean, Three Years Ago, I Wouldn't Be Able To Influence My Dog To Walk.

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I Also Think If You Get Sort Of Early Success There's Always This Part Of You Which Feels Like, "i Need To Address The Imbalance, I Need To Kind Of Earn That Success After The Fact". I Try To Find Roles That Are Hard And Also, I Still Find Now, Even After I've Done Loads Of Really Random Movies, Directors Are Really Surprised That I Want To Play The Parts That I Want To Play. They Just Assume That You Want To Only Do The Honorable Good Guy Lead Who Saves The Day Or Dies At The End .

Thinking

Play

Guy

The Only Emotional Connection Of Relevance Is With My Dog. My Relationship With My Dog, It's Ridiculous.

Dog

Emotional

Connections

I Don't Know What To Say To People. It's Become So Big. It's Become Part Of The Cultural Environment. For The First And Second Twiglight, I Knew Exactly What To Say To People. If You Don't Know What The Story Is By Now, Then You've Probably Never Been To The Cinema Before. How About, "why Not Go To The Cinema For Once?" I Don't Know.

People

Why Not

Stories

I Didn't Want To Get Stuck In Pretty, Public School Roles, Or I Knew I'd End Up As Some Sort Of Caricature.

School

Careers

Acting

I Don't Really Like Watching My Stuff. It Makes Me Feel Sick. You Imagine You Look A Certain Way In Your Head, And When It Looks Even The Slightest Bit Different From What You Imagine, You Go, 'rubbish!'

Careers

Sick

Acting

I Don't Find Myself That Interesting As A Human Being, So I Don't Really Think That Much Of What I Say Or Do Warrants Being Recorded.

Thinking

Interesting

Humans

I Don't Know How Many More Of These Awards I Can Come Up For Because I Think A Little Bit Is Coming Out Of My Pants Right Now.

Thinking

Awards

Careers

My Worst Habit Is Speaking To Much

Life

Habit

Worst

This Thing With Everyone Knowing You It’s Weird, Because People Have This One-sided Relationship Where They Look At Your Picture And Feel They Know You More Than Someone They Actually Know. I Don’t Really Know Myself That Well.

Knowing

People

Looks

Just Last Year I Couldn't Even Get A Date, And Then This Year… It's So Bizarre That Everybody Just Changes Their Mind At The Same Time.

Years

Mind

Lasts

You Can Make Five Massive Hits In A Row And Still Not Get Cast By The Directors You Want To Work With, Doing Little Movies. There Are No Guarantees. I'm Trying To Sign Up And Do Movies That I'll Be Proud Of, If It's My Last One. That's How I Think About It.

Thinking

Trying

Directors

It's Always Been Strange To Me That Someone Can Say They're A Vampire Fan. I'm Not A Non-fan, But It's Such An Unusual Thing To Be A Fan Of. That's Like Saying, "i Love Zombie Movies! I Just Love 'em! They're My Favorite!" That's More Of A Psychological Problem Than Being An Actual Fan.

Unusual Things

Zombie

Vampire

Sometimes Just When I Say Hello The Right Way, I'm Like, 'whoa, I'm So Cool.'

Way

Hello

Sometimes

It Happened While I Was Filming “water For Elephants In Which My Partner Is Reese Witherspoon. We Had A Scene With Elephants But There Were So Many Paparazzi Around That It Was Scaring The Animals And It Was Impossible To Film. Out Of The Blue, Fans, That Were Waiting For Autographs, Had Enough And Circled Around The Paparazzi. Teens Made Big Guys Run Away. It Was Unreal! I Was Pleased.

Running

Animal

Blue

I'm Always Shocked By The People Who I'm Attracted To. It's Always Completely Random. I Generally Like People Who Are A Bit Crazy But Yeah, That's Pretty Much My Only Prerequisite.

Crazy

People

Romance

I Always Get Carried Away When I'm Kissing. I Just Go Nuts! Walking Away After It Is The Strangest Moment For Me. It's Embarrassing - Not Knowing What To Say To Each Other.

Kissing

Walking Away

Nuts

I Have Very, Very Specific Ideas About How I Want To Do My Work And How I Want To Be Perceived And To The Point Of Ridiculousness Sometimes.

Ideas

Want

Sometimes

There's A Thing, In General, About Doing Any Kind Of Series, Especially When The Characters Remain The Same. It's Just That You Can Go Back And Try And Improve Whatever You Did In The Last Movie, Which Never Happens. That Tone Or Work Ethic Is Nice.

Nice

Character

Work Ethic

I Was Only Given This Life Because I'm Strong Enough To Live It.

Strength

Being Strong

Courage

I Was Doing Progressively Smaller Movies In England, After Harry Potter... To The Point Where I Was Doing Nine-day Shoots For, Like, 20p And A Packet Of Space Invaders. And Then This Happened. So I'm Not Just Another Actor Who's Around And Jobbing. When You Hire Me For A Job, You're Hiring.

Jobs

Space

Potters

The Golden Globes Are Always Fun Because Everyone's Drinking.

Fun

Drinking

Golden

It's Funny, People Were Asking Me How I'd Feel When It All Ends, On The First Movie, And I Don't Think I've Ever Felt More Completely Bewildered, Knowing That I Only Have A Month Of Twilight Stuff Left To Do.

Twilight

Thinking

Knowing

If I Could Get Any Semblance Of - It's Not Really Anonymity, But A Little Bit More - Control Over My Public Image, I Guess That Would Be Nice.

Nice

Littles

Would Be

My Ideal Of Manliness Is To Be Incapable Of Doing Anything

Ideals

Incapable

Manliness

I Don't Really Know [who My Favorite Vampire Is]. I Always Think, 'ethan Hawke In Interview With A Vampire,' And Someone Will Say, 'he's Not The Vampire. He's The Interviewer.'

Thinking

Vampire

Interviews

I'm A Lucky Person. Thank God. And I'm Conflicted. Thank God.

Thank God

Lucky

Persons

I Kind Of Wish People Didn’t Know Who I Am, That I Could Just Lie, Say I’m A Speechwriter For Obama. This Is What I Said Before Twilight. And Then Obama Came Along And Picked Up All These Young Writers. I Found Out This Guy, Jon Favreau — Who’s Not The Actor Jon Favreau — Is Writing For Him. And I Was Like, Wow, I Wonder If The People Who Thought I Was Bullshitting At The Time Are Like, ‘oh My God. That Guy! That Kid Who Was Drunk In Some Bar Actually Wrote The Health Care Bill!’

Lying

Twilight

Writing

It's Awkward Doing It With Anybody, But It's Like Twister.

Careers

Awkward

Acting

I Never Understood The Nudity Thing. I’m So Envious Of People Who Can Walk Around Naked.

People

Naked

Nudity

I Look A Bit Like Him.

Funny

Looks

Bits

I'd Love To Be Able To Fit In A Box. Like One Of Those People Who Fit Into Small Boxes. I'd Love It.

Funny

People

Able

I Did This Movie About Salvador Dali A Few Years Ago And Had Hair Extensions And A Little Bob. That Was Incredibly Bizarre.

Hair

Years

Bob

It's Insane. I've Had Girls Throwing Themselves At Me Since The Hype Started. Now The Film's Out I Can't Walk Down The Street Without Being Pounced On. All My Life I've Hated Crowds. Now I Only Have To Step Outdoors And I'm At The Centre Of One. It's Very Cool But It's Very Uncomfortable Too.

Girl

Hype

Insane

I Think So Much Of A Director's Job Is Just To Convince You That What You're Doing Is Worthwhile. "yes, This Does Mean Something, We're Not Just Messing Around." Even Though At The End Of The Day It's A Film. But At The Time It's Something Else. I Don't Feel Like I'm Making A Film, I'm Confronting Things In Myself. I Don't Know What It Is. So If Someone Is Enthusiastic Enough To Convince You That It's Important It's Kind Of Magical.

Mean

Thinking

Important

Xavier Would Be Such A Great Burger. He's All Covered In Spread.

Funny

Would Be

Burgers

What Is Forever? God, I Don't Know. Hope, I Guess. That's A Difficult Question.

Difficult Questions

Forever

Difficult

One Of The Interesting Things About Having An International Fanbase Is That Every Single Country Has A Different Reaction To You And To The Movie.

Country

Interesting

Different

I Always Think That You Have To Have A Certain Understanding Of What An Audience Would Want To See From You As A Public Person As Well As A Character.

Character

Thinking

Understanding

I Really Wasn't Very Much Of A Rebel. I'm Seen By People Now As More Of A Rebel Which Is Strange. I Don't Like Doing What People Tell Me To Do. I Don't Deliberately Rebel Against Them.

Life

People

Rebel

I Went Out A Couple Of Times With Pierce. He's Totally Recognizable, And He Makes No Effort To Tone It Down. Some People Were Glancing Over At Us In The Restaurant, And He Just Went Over And Introduced Himself. And It Does Work. It Dissipates All The Attention. Me? I Just Crawl Under The Table.

Couple

People

Effort

I Go Through Fan Mail Myself, But I Think I Might Get Them Censored, Because I'm Always Expecting To Get The One Thing That Says, 'i Know Where You Live And I'm Going To Kill You!' I'm Always Expecting That To Come, But It Never Seems To Arrive. I Never Get Any Negative Mail, So Someone Must Be Censoring Them.

Thinking

Fans

Negative

What Was The Worst Thing [making Twiligh]? Playing The Part Where You Can't Get Hurt And You Can't Die Because There's No Framework. There Are Too Many Possibilities If You Can't Die. If You're Playing A Normal Human Being, There's Always That.

Hurt

Normal

Being There

I Think Betty White Is One Of The Sexiest Women In America.

Thinking

White

America

People Just Project Their Idea Of My Character On To Me And They Just Seem To Assume That I'm The Same, When In Reality I'm Not.

Character

Reality

Ideas

I've Said, I Think Since The Second One [part Of Twilight Saga ], That It's Going To Take 10 Years To Really Settle In My Brain, And I'm Four Years Into It.

Twilight

Thinking

Years

I Think That's Just A General English Attitude [being Abusive]. I Did The Same Thing To Famous People.

Attitude

Thinking

People

It's Fun To Deal With The Terror And The Huge Highs And Lows Of Things. We're Still Getting Massive Surprises, Anytime There's Any Twilight-related Event Or Anything.

Fun

Twilight

Events

I See Love As An Evolution Of True Friendship.

True Friend

True Friendship

Evolution

Smaller Movies Are Great Because You Don't Have To Argue With So Many People All The Time. But Really I Like Arguing So There's A Balance Either Way.

People

Balance

Way

Never Trust A Guy Who Plucks His Eyebrows.

Funny

Eyebrows

Guy

I Like The Story About Me Being Pregnant. It Was In Some Australian Magazine, On The Front Page! I Was Like, 'wow, That's Just [insane].' And It's Not Even Ironic. I Don't Even Think The Article [tried To Justify It]; It Was Just A Headline. The Article Was Just Like, Nothing.

Thinking

Ironic

Insane

If I Were A Place, The Area Of South Bank, In London. Between The Hayward Gallery, National Theatre And All Other Activities, I'm Never Bored. I Would Also Say New York For The Breathtaking Skyline Formed By The Buildings And The Fast Pace Of The City, Whatever The Time Of Day.

New York

Cities

Bored

You Can Put A Dog In A Scene And Everyone's Going To Be Better, I Guarantee It. And If They're Not Better, Just Shoot The Dog.

Dog

Guarantees

Scene

I Went To Do My First Big Movie When I Was 17. I Was In South Africa For Three And Half Months, And I Was By Myself.

Three

Half

Months

Honestly, I Didn't Think That I Would Be Recognized So Easily.

Thinking

Would Be

Fame

I Still Remember, I Think It Was With The Third Movie, When We Went To Munich And The Entire Olympic Stadium Was Filled With Fans, And Just To Walk In There And Do Nothing.

Thinking

Munich

Fans

I Have Very, Very Low Expenditures, But Still I Manage To Spend It All. I Guess Hot Pockets Are More Expensive Than I Thought.

Pockets

Hot

Lows

I Remember When I Was A Teenager Thinking My Girlfriend Was Cheating On Me, And Going Around Riling Myself Up. Pretending To Cry. It Was Totally Illegitimate-i Actually Didn't Feel Anything. I Went To Some Pub And Then Went Crying All The Way Home. And I Got Into My Dog's Bed. I Was Crying And Holding On To The Dog. I Woke Up In The Morning, And The Dog Was Looking At Me Like, 'you're A Fake.'

Dog

Cheating

Girlfriend

Sometimes I Think I Look Like I've Had Facial Reconstructive Surgery. Like After Burns.

Funny

Thinking

Looks

I Have A Natural Propensity To Work On Big Piles Of Poop.

Poop

Natural

Bigs

Girls, You Know It's All Just A Game To Them, Relationships. Just Go Around Stomping On Everyone.... I Mean, Look At This Poor Guy In The Background With His Collar Up. You Know He's Just Gonna Get Ruined By Women.

Funny

Girl

Mean

Up Until I Was 12 My Sisters Used To Dress Me Up As A Girl And Introduce Me As 'claudia'! Twelve Was A Real Turning Point For Me As I Moved To A Mixed School, And Then I Became Cool And Discovered Hair Gel.

Family

Friends

Girl

As Soon As You Have Someone Who's Providing Stuff To React To, Especially Working With A Baby, It's Great.

Baby

Stuff

Providing

After The First One [twilight], People Started Referring To It As A Franchise, But A Franchise Is A Burger King Or A Subway. It's Not A Movie. The People Who Start To Say It Are Generally The People Who Are Making Money Off Of It. They Love It When Something Becomes A Franchise. But, As An Actor, I Think It's Scary.

Kings

Twilight

Thinking

Thats The Worst Thing, I Don't Really Care If People Say I'm A Bad Actor, I Can Like Work On That, But If They Just Say That He's Ugly Thats Just Like “oh.. Really?

People

Actors

Care

You Feel Quite Strangely Secure [doing Any Kind Of Series]. It's The Opposite Of How You're Supposed To Feel Doing A Movie.

Opposites

Kind

Feels

In Public, I Hardly Ever Show Feelings. That's What Happens When Everything You Do Is Put Under A Magnifying Glass. But If You've Spent Some Time Hiding Behind Your Public Mask, And You're Back In Your Own Environment, Then All That Suppressed Emotions Still Has To Be Set Loose. As A Result You Are Going To Behave Like A Nutcase. I Think Thats Why So Many People Who Are Famous Go Nuts.

Thinking

Glasses

Nuts

There Are Too Many Possibilities, If You Can't Die. If You're Playing A Normal Human Being, There's Always That.

Normal

Being There

Possibility

Outside Of My Family, I Don't Really Know. They're Great People And My Parents Are Great Parents, And They Brought Me Up Very Well, I Think. I Don't Know, I Think That's About All The Heroes I've Had.

Family

Friends

Hero

I Don't Think That I Would Ever Do Serenade To Be Romantic. You Have To Have So Much Balls To Do That.

Thinking

Balls

I Would. I'm Just Too, I'm Kind Of, A Pussy, I Guess. That's The Problem. But, No, I'd Love To. I Think Everybody Should Do Open Mics. I Think It's Very Healthy For Your Soul. So Yeah, I'd Love To Do It Again, But I Don't Know. It's Like I'm Cutting A Record If I Do Open Mic Now, So, I Don't Know.

Music

Cutting

Thinking

I Have Been Called Taylor Lautner A Few Time Which I'm Quite Happy About. You Only Have To Look At Us To See How Funny That Is But It's Nice To Pretend I Might Be Hiding A Taylor Six-pack Under My Shirt.

Funny

Nice

Looks

Your Ideas Dry Up Sometimes, And You Get Lazy Sometimes 'cause You're Around The Same People. That Was The Good Thing About Having Different Directors. You Had To Stay On Your Toes.

Dry Up

Ideas

People

I Wanted To Work With An Elephant.

Elephants

Wanted

It's Strange, Somebody Asked For My Autograph The Other Day. Because I Finished School And I'm Not Really Doing Anything At The Moment, I Was Just Kind Of Aimlessly Wandering Around London And These Two Guys Who Were About 30 Came Up And Asked For My Autograph. I Was Really Quite Proud At The Time, And They Wanted To Take Photos And Stuff. And Then They Were Sort Of Wandering Around And I Was Kind Of Wandering Around And I Bumped Into Them About Three Times, And Every Single Time Their Respect For Me Kept Growing And Growing And Growing.

School

Two

Guy

I'm So Surprised It's Worked Out That Way. I Was Just Thinking The Whole Time That I've Never Had The Personality To Fit Into That. I'm Not Really Afraid Of It, Because I Don't Even Know How To Play Up That Aspect.

Thinking

Play

Personality

When The Whole World Is Watching You, They Create Stories And Give You Labels That Have Nothing To Do With You. It's Almost Impossible For You Not To Explode!

Giving

Watches

Labels

People Were Asking Me How I'd Feel When It All Ends, On The First Movie [of The Twilight Saga], And I Don't Think I've Ever Felt More Completely Bewildered Knowing That I Only Have A Month Of Twilight Stuff Left To Do.

Twilight

Thinking

Knowing

I Think 26 Is The Turning Point. I’ve Got To Make Up For 10 Years Of Living Like A Degenerate. I’ve Suddenly Become Conscious Of Being Unhealthy. You’ve Spent Every Bit Of Free Time Since [the Age Of ] 15 In A Pub. And Suddenly You’re Like, ‘oh God, I Don’t Want To Be This Grey Ghost Sitting There With A Pot Belly. I’ve Got To Get It Together.

Thinking

Years

Age

When I Was Flying To Rome, We Flew Over London; I Felt Like Bursting Into Tears. It's Part Of Me, So I Can't Leave London Behind For Good.

Rome

Flying

Tears

I Think It's Such A Risky Thing Doing Interviews. I Try To Limit The Amount Of Interviews That I Do Because No One Is That Interesting Especially When You're Not Really Saying Anything. And I Don't Particularly Want To Be An Character In Society Or Whatever.

Character

Thinking

Interesting

In Some Ways I Would Like To Be Like Tyler, My Character In The Film.

Way

Remember

Film

I'd Love To Have A Family -- Sometime In The Future.

I Get A Lot More Abuse In England. That's Just A General English Attitude. I Did The Same Thing To Famous People. It's Just Your Instinct.

Attitude

People

Abuse

I Don't Really See The Point In Washing Your Hair. If You Don't Care If Your Hair's Clean Or Not Then Why Would You Wash It?

Hair

Care

Clean

Twilight Fans Are Literally On The Verge Of Being Clinically Insane.

Twilight

Insane

Fans

To Be Honest, Everyone Thinks That A Digital Camera Is More Reliable And Every Single Time I Work On Any Movie, It's Just As Many Problems, The Memory Card Doesn't Work Or Blah Blah Blah, It Overheats; It's The Same Volume As Another Camera. I Think People Are Bit Taken In By It.

Memories

Taken

Thinking

My Back Is Too Long Or Something Because My Ass Is Constantly Hanging Out.

Long

Ass

Hanging Out

The Only Thing That You Can Do Is Do Jobs And See If People Respond To That. I'm Always Holding Onto The Fact That I Don't Really Know Who I Am. Hopefully I Won't Compartmentalize Myself Because Of That, Because I'm Completely Ignorant Of The Whole.

Jobs

Who I Am

People

All The Time. A Few Months Ago I Came Really Close To Losing It, I Was Getting Really Paranoid. And Then I Started A New Job, Things Fixed Themselves. I Can't Turn My Back On The Situation And Ignore It. If Tomorrow I Say: "okay, I've Had Enough, We're Stopping Everything" It Won't Change Anything. Might As Well Try To Accept It And Stay Zen As I Have No Control Over It.

Jobs

New Job

Trying

I Don't Think There Is Any Analysis. I Don't Think Anyone Knows Why People Like [the Twilight]. I Don't Think Even The Fans Know Why They Connect With It In The Way They Do. It's A Visceral Thing.

Twilight

Thinking

People

The Stuff I Find Attractive In Women I Always Regret Finding Attractive. I Always Like A Kind Of Madness In A Woman... I Like It When They Hate Me Right From The Beginning.

Regret

Hate

Romance

I Am Now Determined To Do Really Weird Parts But I Think I Overdo It In Auditions So Nobody Really Trusts Me!

Thinking

Careers

Acting

If I Do Decide One Day To Stop Acting, I Just Hate The Idea Of People Going: 'oh, Did You Ever Do Anything Else Besides That Twilight Thing?'

Hate

Twilight

Ideas

I Don't Really Understand It Even Now, It Does Have An Angle Which Is Attached To Something Quite Primal In Girls. I Guess People Want It To Define Them, Like 'i'm A Twilight Fan.' That's Crazy To Me. I Think People Really Just Like Being Part Of A Crowd. There's Something Just Tremendously Exciting About Hyping Yourself Up To That Level.

Girl

Crazy

Twilight

Only For Practical Reasons. To Find Out If I Said Something Stupid In An Interview. So I Can Limit The Damage.

Stupid

Limits

Damage

I Don't Know [what Things Are Forever]. Friendship. I Can Think Of Lots Of Things.

Thinking

Forever

I Can

There's A Thing, In General, About Doing Any Kind Of Series, Especially When The Characters Remain The Same, To Go Back And Try To Improve Whatever You Did In The Last Movie, Which Never Happens.

Character

Trying

Lasts

It's A Strange Place Where The Film Industry Is At. I Guess You Could Just Play Superhero After Superhero. That Seems To Be The Only Guaranteed Big-money Thing. I Don't Know.

Strange Places

Play

Superhero

On One Occasion I Got This Really Bizarre Horoscope Thing From Someone. It Was A Full-on Zodiac Reading, Charting And Intersecting All This Stuff. It Was Over 20 Pages Long And Said We're Destined To Be Together. That Was Totally Bizarre. I Don't Really Believe In That Stuff Anyway, Although I Do Believe In Karma Because It's Already Bitten Me On The Ass So Many Times.

Karma

Believe

Reading

I Would Have Taught Her A Lesson She Wouldn't Forget!

Funny

Son

Taught

I'm Afraid Of Buying A House Or Anything, 'cause If There's One Paparazzi Outside For One Day, Then They'll Never Leave.

House

One Day

Buying

I Really Understood What Was Happening In Cannes. I Was In A Restaurant During A Break And When I Came Out 2 Hours Later, 500 People Were Waiting For Me At The Exit. It Was Total Chaos. They Literally Had To Carry Me To The Car.

People

Car

Waiting

The First Period Of Getting Famous Was Incredibly Strange To Me And Really Fun At The Beginning Because You Didn't Realise The Consequences Of Anything. You Could Say Or Do Whatever You Wanted And It Just Didn't Matter.

Fun

Matter

Firsts

People Ask Me If I'm Afraid Of Getting Typecast, But You Can't Be Afraid Of That. It's Really Not Up To You. I'm Getting Other Parts That Aren't Vampires.

People

Vampire

Up To You

I Had To Do Two Roles In Two Days, I'm In A Hairflux.

Funny

Two

Roles

People Would Be In Hysterics If They Saw That. It's Like, Wow, He's A Superhuman Moron.... So He Wears Lipstick, Has A Little Bouffant, And Does Little Circus Acts As Well. Oh, He's So Sexy.

Funny

Sexy

People

It's Supposed To Feel Totally Foreign [to Play In A Series], Every Single Time. But, Going Back For Another Go At It Is Good, On The One Hand, But It's Also Bad, On Another Hand, Because Your Ideas Dry Up Sometimes, And Also You Get Lazy Sometimes Because You're Around The Same People.

Hands

Play

Dry Up

Looking Scary With A Baseball Outfit On And A Little Bouffant, You Know, It Just Does Not Work. Especially With Sculpted Eyebrows.

Funny

Baseball

Eyebrows

Frankly, I Have No Sex Appeal. Just Strolling In Los Angeles, London, Or Paris, You Will Find A Bunch Of Young Guys Like Me. I Am Not James Dean.

Sex

Paris

Guy

I Haven't Really Decided To Be An Actor Yet! I Started Doing Plays When I Was About 15 Or 16. I Only Did It Because My Dad Saw A Bunch Of Pretty Girls In A Restaurant And He Asked Them Where They Came From And They Said Drama Group. He Said, 'son, That Is Where You Need To Go.

Girl

Dad

Drama

I Don't Know If I'm Particularly Funny, I Mean One Of My Legs Is Shorter Than The Other One, It Makes Everything Look Very Awkward, So I Can Just Pretty Much Look Like An Idiot, But I Don't Know Whether I Can Be Like Witty. It Could Be A Problem.

Witty

Mean

Careers

I Never Set Out To Achieve Anything, Certainly Not Fame Like This,i Still Have To Deal With How To Actually Make My Life Work.

Fame

Achieve

Deals

I’m, Like, A Compulsive Eater. I’m Going To Be So Fat When I’m Older, It’s Ridiculous.

Ridiculous

Fats

If I Go And Try To Watch A Movie By Myself I'll Be Completely Transfixed The Whole Time, Concentrating One Hundred Percent. But If I'm With Another Person On A Date Or Something, Within Two Minutes I'll Be Like 'this Is Rubbish, This Is Rubbish. We Should Leave And Do Something Else.' I Don't Really Know Why.

Two

Trying

Watches

I Have Been Lucky, Of Course. Like, Last Year, If I Went Out, I'd Have To Fight To Chat Someone Up. This Year, I Look Exactly The Same, Which Is Really Scruffy, And Yet Lots Of People Seem To Have Just Changed Their Minds And Decided I'm Really Sexy.

Sexy

Fighting

Years

I Never Ever Would Have Thought Initially It Would Have Been Someone Like Pierce Playing Charles. I Think He Has An Innate Likeability To Him, As Soon As You Meet Him He's Very, Very Charismatic. Charles, On The Page, Was Someone Who's Very Domineering And Quite A Negative Character, And Pierce Just By Being Pierce Can Change The Whole Dynamic Of It, Which Made For A Much For Interesting Relationship. He's A Really Nice Guy.

Nice

Character

Thinking

This Is Crazier And Louder Than I Was Prepared For. With Every Week, The Fervour And Anticipation Seem To Grow. People Know My Name And Ambush Me In Public And Try To Figure Out What Hotel I'm Staying At And Ask Me To Bite Them And Want To Touch My Hair.

Hair

Names

People

The Other Night I Went Out To Have Dinner In A London Pub And The Barmaid Had This Whole Conversation Saying, 'you Look Just Like That Guy From Twilight'. Every Time She Came Up, She Said Something Like, 'you Literally Could Be His Brother'. But She Never Put Two And Two Together.

Brother

Twilight

Night

I Wanted To Play Piano In Restaurants In The South Of France. I Went There On Holiday Once And I Saw This Guy Playing In An Old Tuxedo. He Was All Disheveled, With A Whisky Glass On The Piano. I Thought That Was The Coolest Thing. So What's Happened To Me With 'twilight' Isn't Really What I'd Planned.

Twilight

Holiday

Glasses

You Can Make Five Massive Hits In A Row And Still Not Get Cast By The Directors Who You Want To Work With Doing Little Movies.

Want

Littles

Directors

I Can't Say I Prefer Blondes, Brunettes, Or Redheads. I Like Emotion And Elegance. Even Expensive Clothes Do Not Guarantee A Good Look. You Must Be Yourself Above All!

Being Yourself

Clothes

Looks

I Used To Be Able To Be In England And Just Be Fine. No One Had Any Idea Who I Was.i Get A Lot More Abuse In England.

Ideas

Abuse

Able

I Never Thought People Would Buy The Soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, It's A Little More Nerve-wracking Now. I Don't Know.

Twilight

People

Nerves

I Really Like Blade. I Wish People Would Make Hard R-rated Fantasy Movies Again. It's Completely Irrelevant, But People Should Do That More. I Haven't Seen That Many Vampire Things.

People

Vampire

Wish

In America There Is A Channel Called Trutv Which Is Just Reruns Of 'cops' And 'world's Dumbest Criminals'. I Could Watch That The Entire Day.

America

Criminals

Watches

I Might Go To Some Tiny Little Town In Idaho With, Like, Three People Living There.

Idaho

People

Three

Shooting On The Street In Brazil - Compared To People Trying To Sneak A Picture Of Something, If You're Shooting In The States Or Canada - People Would Literally Just Try To Grab You.

People

Trying

Brazil

My Little Cousin Tells Me I Look Like Magneto So I Guess That's Who I Should Probably Play.

Cousin

Play

Looks

What Worries Me The Most Is That I Don't Know When My Patience Will Run Out, When I'll Finally Do Something Really Stupid. Wait And See.

Running

Stupid

Worry

New York Seems Very Very Foreign To Me, Like More Foreign Than Almost Anywhere In America, And Almost Anywhere In The World, I Find It Like One Of The Most Overwhelming Places.

New York

America

World

If You Are Using A Digital Camera Specifically For That Reason You Have In Mind From The Beginning, Then Yeah, It'll Work. But Like If You're Just Shooting A Normal Film And Just Kind Of Just Shooting Extra Stuff Because You Can Because You've Got The Memory Space, It's A Bit Pointless.

Memories

Space

Mind

I Thought I Knew It All. Again, I Knew Absolutely Nothing.

Absolutely Nothing

I Can't Deal With Criticism Very Well. I've Already Got It From One Angle. I Don't Need It From Anything Else.

Criticism

Needs

Angle

The Girly Movie I Secretly Love Is Pippy Longstockings.

Life

Girly

Love Is

I Will Keep That A Secret As It Was So Indecent I Doubt She Was In Her Normal State Of Mind When She Made It.

Doubt

Secret

Mind

I’m Just Trying To Not Be In Stupid Gossip Magazines, Basically, And I Think The Best Way To Do It Is Never Be Photographed Ever. As I Get Older, I Just Get More And More And More Self-conscious About Getting Photographed. I Don’t Know Why. I’ve Done It Too Many Times And Now I Feel Like Everyone Can See Through Me.

Stupid

Thinking

Self

I Still Had The Same Frustration With Trying To Play [edward Cullen], The Entire Way Through, Right Up Until The Last Shot. It's A Strange Part Because, On The One Hand, A Lot Of The Audience Projects Their Idea Of Edward[cullen] Onto Him. It Doesn't Matter What He Is. They Want Him To Be A Certain Way. And Then, My Instincts Were To Try And Play It And To Try To Find The Fallibility In Him And The Weaknesses.

Frustration

Play

Ideas

My Biggest Problem In My Life Is I'm Cheap And I Didn't Hire A Publicist. In Every Awkward Interview, Normally Actors Get These Things Scripted.

Awkward

Actors

Interviews

A 17-year-old Girl In Australia Hacked Into My E-mail While I Was On It, Then A 15-year-old Girl In England Did The Same Thing.

Girl

Years

Australia

When You Read The [twilight Series], It's Like Saying 'edward Cullen Is So Beautiful I Creamed Myself'. I Mean Every Line Is Like That. He's The Most Ridiculous Person Who's So Amazing At Everything. I Think A Lot Of Actors Tried To Play That Aspect. I Just Couldn't Do It. And The More I Read The Script, The More I Hated This Guy, So That's How I Played Him, As A Manic-depressive Who Hates Himself. Plus, He's A 108-year Old Virgin, So There's Clearly Some Issues There

Beautiful

Hate

Twilight

I Don't Know If I Could Ever Really Be Cast In A Heartthrob Role Apart From 'twilight,' Which I Didn't Really Know Was A Heartthrob Role. I Really Don't Feel I Am One.

Twilight

Roles

Casts

I Got £25. My Friends All Gave Me £5. It Was A Very Thoughtful Present.

Thoughtful

My Friends

Very Thoughtful

I'd Like To Be Called Ransom Spunk Or Spunk Ransom.

Ransom

Spunk

I Don't Know What's Wrong With Me, My Brain Doesn't Work Anymore. I Haven't Any Memory. I Can't Write. All I Can Do Is Sign My Name. I Tried To Write The Other Day-it Looked Like I Was Writing In Braille.

Memories

Writing

Names

If You Find A Girl Who Reads, Keeps Her Close. When You Find Her Up At 2 Am Clutching A Book To Her Chest And Weeping, Make Her A Cup Of Tea (coffee) And Hold Her. You May Lose Her For A Couple Of Hours But She Will Always Come Back To You. She'll Talk As If The Characters In The Book Are Real Because, For A While, They Always Are. Date A Girl Who Reads Because You Deserve It. You Deserve A Girl Who Can Give You The Most Colorful Life Imaginable.

Girl

Couple

Real

I Don't Know Much About Contemporary Music. I Do Have An Ipod But I Listen To A Lot Of Old Blues. I Listen To John Lee Hooker And Elmore James. I Have Been Listening To Them For Years. I Was Obsessed With Van Morrison For Years. I Went To See Him Recently Where He Performed Astral Weeks. I Just Spent The Entire Night Crying, But I Was Really Obsessed With Van Morrison.

Music

Night

Years

Having A Persona People Recognize, It's The Thing That Probably Gets You Paid The Most - But It's Also The Thing That Virtually Every Actor In The World Doesn't Want. 'cause, Like, No One Would Believe Me If I Wanted To Play Something Ultra-realistic, Like A Gangster Or Something.

Believe

Play

People

It's A Little Bit Over The Top. I Feel The Same In My Head I Guess. I Was Quite A Paranoid Person Anyway, So It Doesn't Really Feed Well When People Are Looking At You. I'm Not Really In The Right Job. I Don't Like Having My Photo Taken. I Don't Like The Attention.

Jobs

Taken

People

Everyone Just Screams And Screams And Screams. I Have Accepted It As Real Now, But It Still Feels Surreal.

Real

Scream

Fame

No, Not Really. I Mean, At The End Of The Day, It's Just A Part. You Just Go Into It, And Like Your Life, You're Walking Along The Street, As A Really Bad Analogy, You Step On A Little Stone, And It Just Kind Of Flies Away And You Have No Idea Where It's Going. And Then You Are Just Trying Not To Drown Afterwards. And That's My Life. See, That Was Really Terrible.

Mean

Ideas

The End Of The Day

I Don't Even Know If Stephenie [meyer] Could Tell You Why She Was So Fixated On [twilight] Very, Very Contained Story About These Very Obsessive Characters. It's Just An Anomaly.

Twilight

Character

Stories

I've Never Met Anyone Who's Left A Comment On Anything. It's Just Demons Who Live In Basements.

Demon

Mets

Basements

Alot Of People Think Our Lives Are All About Taking Pictures And Stuff Like That. But It Becomes A Real Bother When They're Taking Pictures Of You All The Time.

Real

Thinking

Stuff

After The First One [twilight Saga Movie], As Soon As People Start Referring To Something As A Franchise. A Franchise Is A Burger King Or A Subway. It's Not A Movie. The People Who Start To Say It Are Generally The People Who Are Making Money Off Of It. That's How They Refer To It. They Love It When Something Has Become A Franchise. But, As An Actor, I Think It's Scary.

Kings

Twilight

Thinking

[sometimes] I Will Go Through Periods Where I Will Think 'oh Maybe I Should Do A Commercial Movie' And Then I Just Think, Someone Gave Me A Really Great Piece Of Advice, Someone From My Agency Weirdly, They Said The Only Clients That Are Happy Are The Ones That Just Do What They Want To Do. So I Just Kind Of Do Everything For Myself.

Thinking

Agency

Advice

[a Fan] Said, 'what Can I Do To Get Your Attention?' I Was Like 'um, Just Take Your Clothes Off.' She Stood There And Frantically Started Taking Her Clothes Off And Got Dragged Out Of The Room By Security.

Clothes

Fans

Attention

Every Time I Would Say Put A Baby In Every Scene.

Baby

Scene

I'll Probably Go To London And Hide.

London

Fame

I Guess I Had To Learn How To Run Properly. I Spent A Lot Of Time On A Giant Treadmill, Like One Of Those Wheels Mice Run Around On, And Got Filmed Doing It To Improve My Form.

Running

Wheels

Giants

Money By Martin Amis. I Read It When I Was 15, I Read It Hundreds Of Times Since Then And It Always Makes Me Laugh. Amis Has Managed To Create A World That Is Both Funny And Abrasive. I'd Love To Play John Self, The Depraved Hero, Who's Without Illusions, He Created.

Hero

Self

Play

Umm Thanks For The Phone. I Think I Already Broke It.

Funny

Thinking

Phones

I'm Just A Tool, I'm Just A Big, Hard Tool.

Tools

Bigs

Hard

I Never Do Anything Normal Anyway. I Just Get Other People To Do It Now.

People

Normal

Fame

I Don't Think Anyone Knows Why People Like [twilight]. I Don't Think Even The Fans Know Why They Connect With It The Way They Do. It's A Visceral Thing.

Twilight

Thinking

People

I Have So Much Residue Crap In My Hair From Years And Years Of Not Washing It And Not Having Any Sense Of Personal Hygiene Whatsoever. Even Today, I Go Into These Things Where I'm Supposed To Be This Sexy Guy Or Whatever, And I'm Literally Asking, 'if I Get Plumes Of Dandruff On Me, Can You Just Brush It Off?'

Sexy

Hair

Years

I Have Been Playing The Piano For My Entire Life - Since I Was Three.

Music

Piano

Three

I Remember When I Was Younger I Used To Write In My Diary: I Want My Luck To Be Spread. “never Give Me Anything Too Lucky All At Once. I'll Take A Little Luck Now And Then, But Spread It For Seventy Years. “now That All Of This Is Happening, I'm Sure The Rest Of My Life Will Be Ruined.

Writing

Years

Giving

It's Strange Because I'm A Sex Symbol To 14-year-old Girls Which I Guess Is Not The Most Helpful Situation To Be In. But Yeah, I've Never Really Thought Of It. It's Just So Funny. I Mean, Just Last Year I Couldn't Even Get A Date And Then This Year, The World Turns And It's So Bizarre That Everybody Just Changes Their Mind At The Same Time.

Girl

Sex

Mean

I Prefer To Be Someone Who Has To Confront His Many Fears Instead Of Someone Who Has The Illusion He Doesn't Fear Anything

Illusion

Whenever I Have To Do Anything Fan-related There's Always A Whole Bunch Of People. My Brain Kind Of Shuts Down When There Are Loads Of People Screaming At Me. I'm Not Thinking At All So I Can't Really Remember What's Happened Immediately Afterwards.

Thinking

People

Brain

Obviously, The Best Dressed Awards Is Very Relevant, I'm Best Dressed At All Times.(smiles)

Funny

Awards

Relevant

People Don’t Find The Personal Lives Of People With Much, Much More Power Than Any Celebrity Would Have — Don’t Find Their Personal Lives Interesting. I Think If You Put The Lives Of People Who Controlled Billions Of Dollars On The Front News Of Every Single Paper, The World Would Be A Better Place. It’s The Spin Culture. If You Took Away Publicists And Things And People Spoke For Themselves, Then They’d Have To Be Responsible For Their Words.

Thinking

People

Interesting

I'm Not Particularly Good At Coping With It. I Just Cope. I Just Leave My Brain At The Door And Just Stand There. I Can Get The Screaming More Than I Get The Photo Things. That's The Worst, When You Have This Wall Of Photographers. I've Never Understood The Logic In How They Do It. Everybody Shouts At The Same Time, And You're Trying To Do A Logical Thing, Looking From The Left To The Right. And They Almost Always End Up Looking Disappointed With You Afterwards.

Wall

Doors

Brain

I Wasn't At All Focused On School, And I Didn't Achieve Much. But I've Got A Sense Of Urgency Now. I Feel I Can't Let Any More Time Waste Away.

School

Waste

Wasting Time

I Was Obsessed With Eminem When I Was Younger. When He First Came Out I Was About 12 And Fanatical About His 'slim Shady' Cd. I Think He's A Genius.

Thinking

Cds

Genius

There Was One Rumor That I Saw In A Magazine Saying I Was Pregnant. I Thought That Was Brilliant And It Still Crops Up Now. But It's Definitely Not True. I Can Promise You That.

Funny

Promise

Rumor

I Got Expelled From My School When I Was 12; I Was Quite Bad!

Life

School

Bad Life

Nothing Can Be Good If You Do It For Money Or For Fame.

Life

Fame

Be Good

The Most Embarassing Is When Friends Ask You To Meet Up With Them And You Have To Tell Them "sorry I Can't Go To That Place" Because You're Fully Aware Photographers Will Be Waiting For You There. I Feel Like Such A Weasle When Things Like That Happen, Like The World Has To Revolve Around Me.

Sorry

Waiting

World

If I Could Get Any Semblance Of, Not Really Anonymity, But Control Over My Public Image, That Would Be Nice. But No, I Think It's Impossible [to Maintain That], For One Thing. I Don't Think Anyone Can Do That, Apart From Denzel Washington. It's A Strange Place That The Film Industry Is At, Where You Can Just Play Superhero After Superhero.

Nice

Thinking

Strange Places

My Dad Said To Me The Other Day, I Really Am An Artistic Person. I Was Shocked As I Never Saw Him As A Creative. I Think Me And My Sisters Are Living Out That Side Of Him As My Sister Is Another Creative Person, She's A Songwriter.

Family

Friends

Dad

It's Not Necessarily That Satisfying Getting Monetary Success, But Sometimes It Keeps The Door Open To Make What You Want To Make.

Doors

Want

Sometimes

I Am A Big Fan Of Music And Clothing Style Of The 1960s. Whether In England Or The United States, I Like Everything From That Time.

Style

England

United States

What's It Like Kissing Taylor Lautner.

Funny

Kissing

It Makes Me Feel Like Working Non-stop: At Least, On Sets, The Level Of Security Gives Me A Bit Of Privacy. It's A Relief.

Giving

Relief

Levels

I Walked Out The Wrong Car Door And Started Walking Into The Crowd, An Interviewer Said, 'give Your Best Horror Scream,' And Stan Did This Great Scream, And I Was Too Much Of A Wimp To Do One. It Was Pathetic!

Doors

Careers

Giving

I Just Saw Twilight On Tv, For The First Time, A Few Days Ago, And, When My Song Came On, I Was Just Thinking That Is So Bazaar That I Actually Had A Song In The Movie.

Song

Twilight

Thinking

I'm Not One Of These Guys Who's Constantly In A Relationship, Not At All

Guy

Romance

I Don't Think Anyone Can Understand What's Happening. Something Like This Is So Rare. It's A Mix Of Chance And Coincidence. You Wake Up One Day And You're Suddenly A Star.. Really Weird. All Of A Sudden Everyone Knows Who You Are While You Haven't Changed One Bit

Stars

Thinking

One Day

You Have This Weird Thing Where You End Up Trying To Fight Against This Faceless Blob, Where The More You Hate It, The Bigger It Gets, Because It's All In Your Head.

Hate

Fighting

Trying

I Went To One Of These Signing Conventions. It Was One Of The Most Interesting Experiences I've Had. It Was So Strange That People Would Pay For Autographs. You Keep Thinking You Should Do A Little Dance For Them As Well Or Something.

Thinking

People

Interesting

It Was Hilarious [last Scene With Edward Cullen] Considering We'd Spent The Entire Series Filming In The Most Miserable Conditions, And Then We End On The Beach In The Caribbean Filming For Two Days In The Sea. That Was Fun. We Literally Did The Last Shot As The Sun Was Coming Up In St. Thomas In The Virgin Islands. It Was A Nice Way To End It, Because They Were Considering Shooting It In The Sea In Vancouver, Which Would Not Have Worked At All.

Beach

Fun

Nice

I Don't Listen To Anyone Else. That's Why I Don't Have A Publicist Or Something Like That. I Can't Stand It If Someone's Trying To Tell Me To Do Something Which Might Be A Mistake Sometimes.

Mistake

Trying

Might

Since The Day I Finished Shooting There's Been At Least One Person Come Up To Me Every Single Day And Then After The Trailer Came Out, At Least Four. It's Absolutely Bizarre To Me. This Was Before There Was Any Systematic Promotion Of The Movie. It's Just Completely Nuts.

Nuts

Shooting

Four

If It's Just Screaming - And I Know This Sounds So Ridiculous - That Gets Old. But Sometimes When There's Literal Chaos, It's Like Being In A War Zone, And That's Kind Of Exciting. You're Just Running Through The Crowd Of People Chasing After You And No One Knows What's Going On.

Running

War

People

Someone Stole My Shoelaces Once From My Shoes. I Still Wear Them And Never Put Laces In Them - They're Like My Trademark Shoes Now!

Shoes

Lace

Trademarks

People Don't Find The Personal Lives Of People With Much, Much More Power Than Any Celebrity Would Have - Don't Find Their Personal Lives Interesting.

People

Interesting

Personal Life

I Keep Forgetting I'm Speaking In An American Accent Sometimes. The Dangerous Thing Is That You End Up Forgetting What Your Real Accent Is After A While! It's Really Strange; I've Never Done A Job In An American Accent Before.

Jobs

Real

Done

I'm Just Scared Of Crowds. I Just Think People Require Things Of Me Whenever There's A Screaming Crowd, And I Always Think I Won't Be Able To Provide What They Want, So That's Why I Look Scared All The Time.

Thinking

People

Looks

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

Quotes, or quotations, are powerful tools in communication, encapsulating ideas, emotions, and wisdom in concise expressions. They serve various purposes across different contexts, from academic writing to everyday conversation.

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