You should never step outside of your life and look at it like it’s this malleable thing you can shape so that people view it a certain way.

Don't let other people's conversations about what you're doing or you've done be part of your own conversation.

It's not like I sit around watching my movies again and again, but I've never quite believed actors when they say they don't watch themselves.

Hopefully my fan base doesn't lock me into 'Twilight,' you lose yourself. You should do things for you, and I have been really lucky to have things that really rock me and really move me falling into my lap.

When you love something, you get to know it. Then you feel the ownership and if it changes, you only love it as far as you know it because then you're like, "What is this?"

It doesn't matter if you're doing a studio movie or you're doing an independent movie. When you get to set and you're doing a scene, it's always going to be the same job.

I'm so not a performer, my drive to do [acting] is so different to other people - and I'm not discrediting that, they're born performers, they're people that you love to watch just be themselves. I like to be a little bit more in control. I like to make something.