Project Quotes

“I was in a trance the whole way through it..” “..The day before I was just sitting in Leicester Square, happily being ignored by everyone. Then suddenly strangers are screaming your name. Amazing.” [about the Harry Potter Premiere]

“I hope I’m not that close to my character. I hate him. I used to hate everybody like Cedric in my school.”

“I think he’s a pretty cool character. He’s not really a complete cliche of the good kid in school. He’s just quiet. He is actually just a genuinely good person, but he doesn’t make a big deal about it or anything.” [About Cedric]

“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!”

“I liked the maze part. The maze was really fun. A lot of the stunts are very contrived, and someone’s practised them a hundred times and you have to get it perfect otherwise it’s pointless doing it. You’re not gonna be in the right shot or anything. But in the maze, a lot of it was on steady cam – which is just a guy running around with a camera – and all the hedges moved. So me and Dan were basically chasing each other around and punching each other, with these hedges squeezing us. And the camera would just follow you around, so you could basically do whatever you wanted. It was really fun. There were lots of cuts and bruises afterwards and it felt like you were doing a proper job!”

“I had a lot of diving. I think I was doing the underwater stuff for about two months. And, so I think I did about three weeks of learning how to scuba dive. You learn how to do it in a little bathtub-sized thing with all the stuff on, and then on the first day of shooting in the tank, you have to hold your breath and there’s nothing there! And the tank is 60 feet deep and you’re holding your breath for about a minute and a half. Probably not actually! Maybe about 30 seconds.”

“I heard my original one the other day, and I really liked it. I was kind of depressed afterwards, but I like the new one as well. The new one I didn’t write; the composer Carter Burwell did it. The new one fits in with the rest of the score, whereas my one was completely random, so unless you want a five-minute scene of just me playing the piano, I guess it’s kind of irrelevant.” [On Bella's lullaby]

“You can’t really prepare for it. It was a very specific tone.” [On the kiss]

“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.”

“I play Edward Cullen in Twilight, who’s the kind of semi-reluctant vampire. He’s 108 years old, maybe 109 this year I think. He’s stuck in the body of 17-year-old school kid pretending to be a human. He’s a semi-reluctant vampire, pretty much 100 years, he wants to either die or become a human again. Then he meets what becomes the love of his life who’s a mortal girl called Bella. He falls in love with her. The story is the problems, the trials and tribulations which occur when a vampire falls in love with a normal girl who he wants to kill all the time.”

“I read them after my screen test. I’d never even heard of them before. Then we were doing the movie and it kind of got exponentially bigger and bigger and bigger and everybody knew about it, so it was kind of strange, unexpected.” [Asked about whether he had read the books]

“It’s bizarre. You kind of know that it is essentially the book. The book has so many obsessive, obsessively loyal fans. It’s strange because people just immediately relate you to the character right away rather than you as an actor. Everybody hated me at the beginning, universally. It is kind of weird. When you read the description of him, it says he’s so beautiful it hurts to look at him. I think it’s kind of difficult to act that so I wouldn’t really know how to go about doing it. I hope there’s been a lot of post production.”

“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?’”

“The main thing I asked her is why Edward has accepted Carlisle as he has. He sometimes treats him as his father and sometimes as a sort of partner. I was just wondering why this 108-year-old guy would pretend to be a 17-year-old boy to someone who knows that he’s not 17. And she said that Edward has judged Carlisle to be a good enough person to deserve him acting like his son – which I thought was very interesting. It’s a very, very strange thing to do, if you have absolutely no relation to someone, and [to keep up the charade], just because they’ve stolen your soul against your will. Edward has found it within himself to forgive him to such an extent. … There aren’t many scenes that show that, but I thought it was an interesting dynamic.” [On talking to Stephenie Meyer about Edward]

“And she’s like ‘i dont care! I LOVE you. And it’s like..well! There’s definitely something wrong with her and there’s very obviously something wrong with me!”

“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.”