- Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as 'Claudia'! Twelve was a turning point as I moved to a mixed school and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.
- (on his first Red Carpet apperance) 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!
- (About Kristen Stewart) “I mean, Kristen’s great. She’s, uh, one of the main reasons why I wanted to do this: just because of her body of work and also just the audition kinda made me feel very differently about it. I had no idea how to do it before the audition. I mean, she’s an extraordinarily talented actress.” - Random Interview
- (on Harry Potter co-star Emma Watson) She is really, really cool. She seems so much older than she really is. I find her quite intimidating. I always find myself trying to impress her. She's very, very clever!
- 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.
- They [Barnes Theatre Club] were a very good group, and for some reason when I finished the backstage thing, I just decided to that I should try to act. So I auditioned for Guys and Dolls and got a little tiny part as some Cuban dancer or something and then in the next play I got the lead part, and then I got my agent. So I owe everything to that little club.
- 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.
- The day before [the Harry Potter London premiere] I was just sitting in Leicester Square, happily being ignored by everyone. Then suddenly strangers are screaming your name. Amazing.
- I went to one of these signing conventions. [in '06] 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.
- I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three or four. And the guitar - I used to play classical guitar from when I was about five to 12 years of age. Then I didn't play guitar for like years. About four or five years ago, I got out the guitar again and just started playing blues and stuff. I am not very good at the guitar, but I am all right. I am in a band in London as well.
- My favorite teacher was 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.
- I didn't want to get stuck in pretty, public school roles, or I knew I'd end up as some sort of caricature. Playing Dali has been a complete turning point for me. It's the first part I've had that has required really serious thought. I became completely obsessed with Dali during the filming, and I read every biography I could get a hold of. He was the most bizarre, complex man, but in the end I felt I could relate to him. He was basically incredibly shy.
- 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.
- "Twilight' is a metaphor for the virtues of chastity, but it's had the opposite effect. I get letters that say "I'm going to kill myself if you don't watch 'High School Musical 2' with me. It's a little nuts.
- "..I hate my name. I hate any reference to my name. I wish people would completely invent a new one.."
- "I'd like to be called 'Ransom Spunk' or 'Spunk Ransom.'"
- "That's 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 that's just like 'oh...really?'"
- "Spider-Man. I like the outfit; I like a little bit of spandex."
- "When I was entering the building, I saw a girl, and she was so baffled by me; she just looked so underwhelmed. I'm like, "Don't worry. I get that all the time."
- "..then it turns into hell. Like all kisses do."
- "I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore."
- "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."
- "Who have I always wanted to play? Batman would be really cool, but Batman is a boring guy; like, Bruce Wayne is kind of boring. I haven't seen the ["Dark Knight"] yet, but in the comics he was always straight-laced. Spider-Man was quite cool, but he had to be a geek. And then there was Superman. But I always liked Gambit from "X-Men."
- "Write a book! How many times do I have to tell you do not be an actor!"
- "I guess I'm just a control freak, I don't like the way the film industry is . . . If you come with a good script and then it goes to the studios and gets financing, it all gets changed because they want to make money. And it's like, how do you know if it's going to make money or not? All you're doing is making it generic when you do that, and making it generic is no guarantee that it's going to make money either..The only way to abandon that is to take risks, and you need to be able to trust people. So you get a company together with people you know are good and you know work hard and you can make good stuff. That's kind of what I want to do."
- (About playing Cedric Diggory) "I hope I’m not that close to my character. I hate him. I used to hate everybody like Cedric in my school."
- (About playing Cedric Diggory) "In the book and also my first introduction of the script is like "an absurdly handsome 17-year-old" and it kind of puts you off a little bit, when you're trying to act, and you're trying to get good angles to look good looking and stuff. It's really stupid; you'd think I'm really egotistical. But I think that's the most daunting part about it - it's much scarier than meeting Voldemort!"
- (About the fight scene in Twilight) "I fight like a little bitch. I'd bite and pull his pants down and stuff."
- "I realized that it's just Bella saying that he's so beautiful, and she's in love with him and obsessed with him. He could be a piece of cheese and she'd say the same thing."
- (About playing Edward Cullen) When I first read the script and heard about the casting I was thinking, ‘This is impossible. This is physically impossible to play this part.’ I kind of preempted what everyone’s reaction would be. There was also a very real possibility that you could get so freaked out by having to look 'beautiful' all the time that you just end up doing the whole thing, like, pouting. Like, ‘Can I just cut all my lines and just stand still so you can shoot it really well?’
- (About playing Edward Cullen) "I never saw it as a vampire. I saw it as a guy with something in him that makes him terrified of commitment. He is extremely passionate and has very little self-control. He is with a girl he can't have a physical relationship with and she keeps tempting him."
- (About Harry Potter co-star aniel Radcliffe) "I think he's (Daniel) , just in real life, he's just so far superior to me in terms of desirability, so he didn't really have much of a competition with me. So there wasn't really much joking around. I'd probably cry if he did. If I was Katie, I would definitely go out with him because he's rich and famous, and I'm not really."
- (About Harry Potter co-star Katie Leung) "Yeah. I get on really well with Katie, she's a really cool girl. I don't have many talking scenes (with her).
- (About Harry Potter co-stars Michael Gambin and Warwick Davies) "I'm a big fan of Michael Gambon. They were all really, really nice people and they treat it as a job. They don't really have big egos or anything about it. There was one guy - Warwick Davis - he's in [the film] Willow, and Willow is like my favourite film. I had one scene sitting next to him at the dragon task, and I had no idea what to say to him at all! He was the only person I asked for an autograph the whole way through it!"
- (About Twilight co-star Kristen Stewart) "Kristen's the best actress of our generation, and that's why I wanted to do this movie. I don't know why she is. She's just better than everybody else."
- "Its a really emotional Experience when people are screaming at you all the time. When I was in italy all th ese people started screaming in this bookshop. Your immediate reaction is you feel like crying. ...Its really strange. Its so not how I thought I would react. When People are pressing loads and loads of energy, you can kind of feel it...just having that energy, it's overwhelming." -People June 2, 2009 Hottest Bachelors issue
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