I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.

I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.

The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There’s an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren’t just vampires. There’s a wolf pack.

I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

Does my being half-naked bother you?

I get nervous before everything - dates, filming, awards shows.

I remember when I first moved to L.A. from Michigan when I was 11 years old and I walked down the Walk of Fame and looked at the hand and foot prints of the stars and it was the coolest thing. And I never thought that mine would actually be there one day, so when it happened it was so surreal and such an honor