The Whole First Movie [twilight] Was Pretty Fun. I Had Never Really Done A Movie Like It, When There's Such A Big Cast Of People That Are Around About The Same Age. Everyone Didn't Really Know What Was Going To Happen With The Movie, But There Was A Good Energy. There Was Something Which People Were Fighting For, In A Way. They Wanted It To Be Something Special. None Of Us Were Really Known Then, As Well. It Felt Like A Big Deal, At The Time.

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

Attitude

Thinking

People

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

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

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

School Reports Were Always Pretty Bad - I Never Ever Did My Homework. I Always Turned Up For Lessons As I Liked My Teachers But My Report Said I Didn't Try Very Hard.

Life

Teacher

School

I'm Almost Completely Deaf Anyway. So I'm Worried. I'm Very Worried.

Deaf

Worried

I Was At A Small Private School In London. I Wasn't Very Academic. My Dad Said To Me, 'ok, You Might As Well Leave, Since You're Not Working Very Hard'. When I Told I Him Wanted To Stay On For My A-levels, He Said I'd Have To Pay My Own Fees, Then He'd Pay Me Back If I Got Good Grades.

Life

Dad

School

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'm Trying To Sign Up And Do Movies That I'll Be Proud Of It. That's Kind Of How I Think About It.

Thinking

Trying

Proud

There Is A Price, Which You Have To Pay. You Are 24 Hours On The Job, If You Go Out In Public.

Jobs

Pay

Hours

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 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

I Think That ‘new Moon’ Was My Favorite Book As Well Mainly Because I Like The Juxtaposition Of All Sudden People Being…it’s Such A Hyped Character, Edward, And There Are So Many People Looking At Him Like A Romantic Hero. In ‘new Moon’, The Way That I Read It Anyway, He’s Just So Humbled. It’s A Character Who’s Looking At Bella And Thinking That He Loves Something Too Much But He Can’t Be Around. He Deliberately Starts Breaking Up Their Relationship Which I Think Is A Very Relatable Thing And I Think Is Very Kind Of Painful.

Book

Hero

Character

Me, Kristen [stewart] And Taylor [ Lautner] Stood In The Middle Of The Olympic Stadium With 30,000 People Just Screaming For 15 Minutes. It's Absolutely Bizarre. There's No Way You Can Ever Compute It.

People

Way

Bizarre

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

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

I Actually Think Being Involved In The Cesarean Would Be... I Just Can't Wait!

Funny

Thinking

Waiting

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 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

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

Way

Remember

Film

People Will Know You For Whatever They Want To Know You For.

People

Want

Knows

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

Cousin

Play

Looks

I Had Pecs For About Two Days. Everyone Would Hate Me. Just Look At Me Walking Around With My Little Peacoat On. My Little Customized Pea Coat.

Funny

Hate

Two

I Thought I Was Supposed To Have A Fake Six-pack In This Scene

Funny

Fake

Six Packs

With Eclipse, I Felt Like I Was Doing A Completely Different Movie And A Completely Different Character. So, Yeah, It Was Nice And Challenging.

Nice

Character

Challenges

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

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

Funny

Thinking

Phones

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 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 Have To Look Over My Shoulder All The Time, Be Really Vigilant Because At Any Moment, Someone Could Be Filming Me Or Recording What I'm Saying.

Looks

Moments

Fame

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

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

I Don't Want People To Hate Me. I Basically Do Whatever I Want. But One Of The Aspects Of What I Want Is, I Want People To Like Me!

Hate

People

Want

I Can't See Any Advantage To Fame. I'm Happy With The Life I Have Now. I've Got The Same Two Friends I've Had Since I Was 12, And I Can't See That Changing.

Two Friends

Fame

Advantage

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

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

I Like Being A Part Of David Cronenberg’s World, I Feel Very At Home There

Home

World

Feels

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

I'm Trying To Make Something Every Time That Feels New And Surprises People. Hopefully At Least One Person. But It's Not Like I Turn It Off. I Don't Make A Movie And Then Go Back To My Normal Life. When I'm Finishing One Movie The Next Day I'm Thinking About The Next One.

Thinking

People

Trying

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 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

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

Funny

Awards

Relevant

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

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

Baby

Scene

Contact Lenses Make Me Miserable, As Soon As I Put Them In. That's What Creates The Pouting And Brooding Character.

Character

Lenses

Pouting

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

Real

Scream

Fame

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

It's Funny What You Really See When You're The Subject Of The Completely Bizarre Gossip Magazine Industry. It's Just Like, 'what?!?' All This Stuff With Emilie [de Ravin, His Costar In Remember Me] As Well. The Tabloids Say Stuff Like 'they Went On A Date To An Indian Restaurant.' We Were Doing A Scene! There's A Film Crew There!

Gossip

Magazines

Tabloids

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

I Look A Bit Like Him.

Funny

Looks

Bits

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

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

Fun

Twilight

Events

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

Funny

Son

Taught

The Script Changed So Much Over Seven Months And Just Had Loads And Loads Of Re-writes. I Tried To Tailor Things To What I Was Interested In, Like The Relationship With The Dad Changed Quite A Lot Because I Thought One Of The Things When You're A Young Guy One Of Your Biggest Fears Is This Irrational Fear Of Walking In Your Dad's Footsteps And Living The Same Life As Him. I Thought, Even If Your Dad's A Good Guy, You Just Want To Assert Your Independence On Everything And It Causes These Irrational Sort Of Rages.

Dad

Writing

Seven Months

I Don't Really Know How Accepted I Am. Nothing Ever Matters To Me Apart From The People With Negative Opinions. That's Literally It. That Always Drives Me On To The Next Thing. It's Funny, You Just Focus On Them And Then The Next Movie. That's The Only Thing You're Thinking About When It Comes Out.

Thinking

People

Focus

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

Strength

Being Strong

Courage

I Used To Wear My Mom's Wayfarers. When The People Of Ray Ban Noticed That, They Sent Me A Box Full Of Sunglasses, Two And A Half Years Ago. Now They're All Gone. They've Disappeared During Trips, Many Were Also Stolen From Me, The Rest I Lost Again And Again. Now I Have Only One Pair Left.

Life

Mom

Years

I Had A Stalker While Filming A Movie In Spain Last Year. She Stood Outside My Apartment Every Day For Weeks – All Day, Every Day. I Was So Bored And Lonely That I Went Out And Had Dinner With [her]. I Just Complained About Everything In My Life And She Never Came Back.

Lonely

Years

Bored

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

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'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.

People Who Are The Most Normal Are Probably The Most Crazy.

Crazy

People

Normal

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

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

Ridiculous

Fats

I Want To Strangle Whoever Invented That R-patz Thing.

Want

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 Watch So Many Movies And I Find A Lot Of Them Very Predictable, And Also, A Little Bit Playing It Safe.

Playing It Safe

Watches

Littles

I'm Really Scary In Reality. Most Of The Time.

Funny

Reality

Scary

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

Guy

Romance

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

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

I Was Just Taking Out My Trash And I Had, Like, 300 Cans Of Diet Coke. It Was Just Like, 'how Did That Happen?' I Don't Even Remember Buying Them. I Also Like Cinnamon Toast Crunch. My Addictions Are Pretty Much The Only Things I Consume.

Addiction

Cinnamon

Coke

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

Christoph Waltz Is Stunning, An Insanely Nice Guy. He Is Not Only A Ridiculously Good Actor, He’s Also Funny, Helpful & A Good Colleague. I Like His Work Ethic. I Mean, The Guy Has Won An Oscar And Despite That He Is Receptive, Open-minded & Not The Least Bit Snooty. Reese Witherspoon Is The Same. It May Be The Nicest Cast That I Have Worked With Yet.

Nice

Mean

Work Ethic

You Really, Really Feel Like You Have No Control [participating In Franchise] . I Mean, It's A Huge Juggernaut, Especially When Something Becomes Part Of The Cultural Landscape In A Way As Well. It's Really Scary Because You Get Trapped And You Get Scared Of Changing, Which Is The Worst Thing That Can Happen If You Want To Be Any Kind Of Artist.

Mean

Artist

Scary

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

Poop

Natural

Bigs

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

My Worst Habit Is Speaking To Much

Life

Habit

Worst

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

Absolutely Nothing

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 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

I Started Doing A Paper Round When I Was About 10. I Started Earning $10 A Week And Then I Was Obsessed With Earning Money Until I Was About 15.

Life

Paper

Earning

The Only Way To Establish Any Kind Of Mystique, Is To Completely Shut Up And Never Talk To Anyone. And I'm Contractually Obligated Not To Shut Up.

Way

Kind

Shut Up

The Girly Movie I Secretly Love Is Pippy Longstockings.

Life

Girly

Love Is

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

Way

Hello

Sometimes

I've Never Really Taken Myself Seriously As An Actor, It Is Surprising The Amount Of People Who Think I'm Going To Be Really Dumb. I Think They Think Anyone Who Has Done Teen Movies Is Just An Idiot. I Don't Know, Maybe I Am. Some Of The Best Actors, If You Talk To Them, They're Not The Smartest People In The World.

Taken

Thinking

People

I See Love As An Evolution Of True Friendship.

True Friend

True Friendship

Evolution

It's Hard For Them Because They Want To Be Proud Of Me, But I Keep Reminding Them That It's All Luck. Luck Is What Got Me Here, Nothing Else.

Family

Friends

Luck

It's Easy To Get Stagnate, If You Play The Same Character. In New Moon, I Felt Like I Was Going A Little Bit Deeper.

Character

Moon

Play

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

Careers

Awkward

Acting

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

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

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

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 Like Being Meticulous And It's Quite Difficult As An Actor To Have That Much Control.

Actors

Being Me

Meticulous

I Never Really Considered Myself Attractive, Really. I Was Always Kind Of Gangly In School.

Life

School

Kind

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 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

I Learned That If A Relationship Is Honest, It Can Last Through Anything Despite All The Challenges We Have To Face And Everything That Happens Around Us.

Challenges

Lasts

Faces

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

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 Boring. I Stay Home, Watch Tv, And Eat A Lot Of Fast Food. That's Really Exciting, Isn't It?

Home

Watches

Tvs

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

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 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

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

Thinking

Would Be

Fame

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

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

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

Baby

Stuff

Providing

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

Start Drinking Vodka Instead Of Beer, And Try To Get A Six-pack As Early As Possible And You'll Be A Much More Successful Actor.

Drinking

Beer

Successful

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 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.

Dog

Crazy

Mean

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 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

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 Always Think Everything Is Going To Be My Last Job So Every Single Day Is A Gift. This Whole Life Is An Accident For Me.

Thinking

Whole Life

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

Long

Ass

Hanging Out

I Can’t Remember Who Said It, But A Soul And A Heaven Must Exist Because Good People Aren’t Rewarded Enough On Earth. I Always Liked That Idea, If That Makes Sense.

Ideas

Heaven

Soul

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

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

Thinking

Forever

I Can

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

[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

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

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

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

If I Had Known That This Movie Would Bring So Much Craziness, I Don't Know If I Would Have Said 'yes' To The Twilight Saga. I Never Asked To Be A Poster-boy.

Twilight

Boys

Fame

I Was Quite Intimidated By Ralph Fiennes. I Didn't Really Talk To Him While I Was Doing Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire And The Only Thing I Did With Him Was When He Stepped On My Head. Then I Went To This Play And He Was There. And This Girl Said, “you've Worked With Ralph Fiennes Haven't You, Robert?” And I Was Like, “well, No...” And Ralph Said, “yes, I Stepped On Your Head.” And That Was The Extent Of Our Conversation.

Girl

Fire

Play

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'll Probably Go To London And Hide.

London

Fame

I Actually Quite Like Working With Kids And I Like Working With Animals, Which Is What Everybody Says You Shouldn't Do, Because It Makes You Feel Like You're Not Acting.

Kids

Animal

Acting

If You Took Away Publicists And Things And People Spoke For Themselves, Then They'd Have To Be Responsible For Their Words.

People

Responsible

Spokes

I Think Pretty Much All People Who Love Each Other Had Some Kind Of Thing At First Sight. I Mean, There Has To Be Some Kind Of Moment Where You, Like, Feel A Different Energy Around Someone.

Mean

Thinking

Sight

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

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

It's Been Amazing To Play The Same Character Through So Many Adventures. And It's So Strange Because My Life Has Changed So Much Over These Years, But 'twilight' And Edward Cullen Will Always Be A Part Of Me. It's Been My Whole Life. My Whole 20s. And I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way.

Twilight

Adventure

Character

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

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

In This Scene, I'm Talking About How Much I Don't Like Cookies.... I'm Sayin', 'listen, Guys. Have You Read The Book? We're Not Supposed To Be Eating.'

Funny

Book

Talking

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

The Special Effects Team Designed Everything, Which Basically Allowed Me To Stand On A Green Box And Look And Stay Relatively Expressionless And All These Machines Did The Acting For Me. Just The Way I Like It (laughs)

Funny

Team

Laughing

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'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

That Was The Good Thing About Having Different Directors [on Series]. You Had To Stay On Your Toes.

Toes

Directors

Different

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

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

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

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

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

When Someone Tells You The Fundamentals You Think That Everything's Going To Come Out And Be Amazing.

Thinking

Fundamentals

Everyone Used To Chuck Snails At Each Other At School, And I Used To Try And Save Them. And Not Only Did I Get In Trouble For It, I Got Suspended For Doing It. For Saving The Snails I Kept About Four Or Five Hundred Of Them At The Back Of The Class -- In Snail Land. We Were Like Six Or Seven Or Something, People Didn't Even Realise What They Were Doing. I Had A Strange Compassion For Snails. And The Teacher Just Chucked Them All In The Trash In The End.

Teacher

School

Compassion

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

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

Tools

Bigs

Hard

This Is Quite Difficult 'cause I Have A Really Flat Head, And So It's Quite Difficult To Get A Correct Angle. And You Can't Go Up From Down Below As Well, 'cause I've Got, Like, Rock Solid Gelled Hair. And So, Like, It Was Odd. I Don't Know, Sometimes I Feel Like My Head Is Being, Like, Turned Inside Out. Like That Episode Of Ren & Stimpy When He's Inside His Own Belly Button. I Don't Know.

Funny

Hair

Rocks

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

Life

Fame

Be Good

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

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

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’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 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

The Link Between My Brain And My Mouth Is Just Not There Anymore.

Brain

Links

Mouths

So I Know Where My Feet Are.

Funny

Feet

Knows

I Think Someone Follows Me. They Do The Most Random Stuff. I Get A Photo Taken Through A Burger Drive-through Window And It's Like, 'what?'. They Always Seem Like They're Six Feet Away. I Don't Understand. I'm Walking Around And I Don't See Anybody.

Taken

Thinking

Feet

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 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

Probably My English Teacher Because She Got Me Into Writing Instead Of Just Answering The Question. I Used To Hand In Homework With 20 Pages Of Nonsense And She'd Still Mark It. She Was A Really Amazing Teacher.

Life

Teacher

Writing

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

I Hope There Is Such A Thing. I Guess It Would Be Quite Scary To Find A Soul Mate When You're Young Because You're Probably Going To Mess It Up.

Romance

Scary

Soul

Never Trust A Guy Who Plucks His Eyebrows.

Funny

Eyebrows

Guy

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

If You're A Fan Of It, There's A Lot Of Things That Plays Into What The Fans Of The Series Want. If You've Never Seen Them Before, A Lot Of People Who Have Seen It Tell Me That It's The Most Accessible Of The Three. It's A Solid Story, By Itself, And It's More Of A Sort Of Action Film. When I Was Watching Twilight The Other Day, I Realized That You Do Need To Read The Book To Get It.

Book

Twilight

Play

I Definitely Want To Record An Album, Direct A Film And Start My Own Religion.

Albums

Records

Want

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

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 Don't Even Know If Stephenie Meyer Could Tell You Why She Was So Fixated On This Very, Very Contained Story [the Twilight] With Obsessive Characters. It's Just An Anomaly. That's A Terrible Answer. I Don't Know.

Twilight

Character

Anomalies

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

Ransom

Spunk

I Want To Be With My Wife. Sitting On A Deckchair, Sipping Some Tea, And Reading Books In A Retirement Home, In A Beautiful And Warm Place. I'm A Romantic Guy.

Beautiful

Retirement

Reading

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 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 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

Peter [facinelli] Would Be So Good At Doing That. I Want Him To Do The Beyoncé Biopic.

Funny

Want

Would Be

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

Difficult Questions

Forever

Difficult

Peter Also Uses His Wig As A Cereal Bowl... He'll Some Times Have Some, Like, Top Ramen In It.

Funny

Cereal

Wigs

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

Twilight

Insane

Fans

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

We Didn't Have Packed Lunches At My School. I Was A Lunch Monitor As Well - I Used To Take Everyone's Chips!

Life

School

Lunch

In A Lot Of Ways, I Was Kind Of Crossing Lines Of What I Thought I Was Comfortable Doing. I Had To Do All This Naked Stuff.

Careers

Acting

Naked

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 Aspire To Be Jack Nicholson. I Love His Every Single Mannerism. I Used To Try And Be Him In Virtually Everything I Did, I Don't Know Why. I Watched One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest When I Was About 13, And I Dressed Like Him. I Tried To Do His Accent. I Did Everything Like Him. I Think It Kind Of Stuck With Me.

Thinking

Careers

Trying

It's Nice That I've Grown Up With The Same Friends Since I Was 12, I Have A Very Close Knit Set Of Them... I Grew Up With A Lot Of People Who A Lot Of Other People Regarded As Heroes, And No One Ever Came To Me For Advice, No One Ever Came To Me For Protection, And So I Don't Ever Really Think I've Been Looked At As A Hero.

Family

Friends

Nice

I Read Some Gossip Thing Saying, Because I Looked Really Uncomfortable In A Paparazzi Photo Or Something, They're Like, 'he Should Get Used To It. That's The Price To Pay If You're Getting $12m A Movie'. If I'm Getting Paid $12m A Movie I'd Walk Around Naked. That's All Nonsense. I Don't Know Who Makes That Stuff Up. Even The Price For The First One Was Nonsense.

Gossip

Naked

Pay

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

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

When This Is Over, The Media Will Lose Interest [in The Relationship]. There’ll Be Nothing To Say. It Won’t Fit Into A Headline Anymore. It Won’t Fit Into A Template.

Media

Fit

Fame

Understanding Quotes: Their Essence and Application

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