England is always my home for ever. There is something that never be replaced, I feel that more than ever since I’ve been away from there. I used to live in Soho (mid-London), when I went there in last Christmas vacation it looked completely different.

It’s funny now, like trying to socialize with people. There’s this cautiousness about people which I just find really weird.

I can’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.

Kristen [Stewart] is very focused on being an actress. I mean, that’s what she is – she’s an actress. Whereas I – I just don’t really know.

I’ve just kind of stopped doing everything. I never change the channel in my trailer. I just watch reruns of ‘House of Payne’ and ‘Two and a Half Men.’ I love ‘Cops’ – I think it’s my favorite TV show. God, I sound like such a loser.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me. My brain doesn’t work anymore. I haven’t any memory. I can’t write. All I can do is sign my name.

Recently I stood in the desert, far outside of L. A., and watched the sun set on a circus tent from 1930. Everywhere stood animals: elephants, tigers that should be loaded into a steam train. 300 extras in costumes raced around, the modern world had disappeared totally. Although that was totally fake, it still happened directly before my eyes! That was my perfect day. I would be gladly experience that every day. It happens continually to me: It calls itself work. That is wonderful and more than enough.

Every one of us knows the time, before something happens between a couple, when you’re still totally insecure: Does the other person like me or not? That is definitely the riskiest time! This moment can last an eternity. To this sweet uncertainty also comes anxiety, especially if it’s the first time for both people. I believe this worry stirs up desire. And in this case, the period of desire lasts almost four books [The Twilight Saga].

I believe rather, that everyone has sex before marriage (laughs)—then and now. I also don’t believe that girls ‘must respect themselves’ or that boys only want ‘the one’. If you behave like a gentleman, because chastity really suits you—okay. But if you take it for the newest fad in the dating world, then it’s rather off the mark.

It was recently. 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.

Already from the time that I was 18 they [Rob’s two sisters] explained to me: if you hadn’t started styling your hair with gel, then you still would have always been one of these plain, boring people.

I was obsessed with a writer called Martin Amis when I was a teenager. I read everything. Every single time I went to a bookshop, I’d see if he has other books. I used to buy multiple editions of his books. Martin, Van Morrison and Jimi Hendrix—they were my people when I was growing up. I’d obsessively collect all their stuff.

I think I’ve become more old-fashioned. I feel like I’m already turning middle-aged now. It’s quite nice to be doing a series of films [The Twilight Saga] that a lot of people think uphold positive virtues. Some people actually think the films are a good influence on their kids.

One of the things that really annoys me about the rise of all these celebrity websites is that anyone who becomes famous—people are so desperate to prove that [celebrities] are lower than the average person on the street. Why destroy any hope for anyone else? When I grew up, looking at movies like ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ and stuff, it made me want to do things. And you don’t want to believe that someone you admire… [is an a--hole].

I just kept telling everyone why I needed to take my shirt off in a scene, and everyone else had to think of reasons why I shouldn’t. ‘No, I don’t think so—Edward is much more chaste than that.’ Then I’d say, ‘No, seriously—I would like to wear a really tight tank top and have my belly come out of the bottom. And have some sweat on it, too.’

I take way too long to get dressed, like way too long. But only for things like shows or if I have to do public appearances. Like, I’m ridiculous, I’ll keep getting changed and getting changed and then I’ll just put on the same thing I wore the day before.

The more you are exposed, the more people irrationally hate you, I think we reached a point, a peak, with ‘New Moon’ where the stories became so saturated into the culture that it started to feel normal. It’s like the tabloids don’t know what to write anymore because they’ve used up all their scandals.

I don’t know what benefit there would be to talking about it. In logical terms, if you were just walking down the street and every single stranger on the street knew your business, and came up and felt the need to comment on it, you’d just be like, ‘Shut up! Like, I’m gonna kill you!’ And it’s exactly the same mentality. I don’t really want to try and sell it either, maybe if I was selling it I’d talk about it more.

Something about kneeling down, because I had to kneel down so much in the ‘Twilight’ movies and it always looks really awkward. I’ve actually got quite long thighs and it doesn’t work.

I would love to have Edward with really short hair. It’s such a relief not having a big animal on my head most of the time.

I feel like I’m getting old. I used to go out every night when I was doing jobs, now I can’t. I want to go to bed at 9:30 every night. It’s terrible.

Do I believe in a soul? Yeah. I mean, I think…yeah definitely. I mean, I always agreed—I can’t remember what—who—said it, but you know, a soul and a heaven must exist because good people aren’t rewarded enough on earth. Which like, I always liked that idea and the existence of a soul, if that makes sense.

I went on [’The Daily Show’] and I was think­ing like, ‘Oh, I’ll try to be like, funny and stuff.’ I just real­ized it’s impos­si­ble to be a come­dian. You gotta be a genius to able to think of that stuff.

I like the glitter lube stuff, I thought that was really funny. I was just like, ‘I did not sign that!’

I just like doing things where you have a little time to think about what you’re saying. I’ve always had a problem actually thinking before I open my mouth.

I took a picture with Ron Howard last year at the Oscars. I thought it was the funniest thing. I asked, ‘Is this for your kids?’ He said, ‘No, it’s for me. I want to have it on my phone.’

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. It’s crazy. I mean, it’s the same thing as what’s Taylor’s [Lautner] say­ing. 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. I was above [Barack] Obama. I was like, I have to agree with that. I totally agree. But it’s com­pletely insane.

You know in Amer­ica when you get chicken and bis­cuits? It’s just really funny, whenever I’m in Amer­ica and drive past restau­rants and see chicken and bis­cuits and I’m like ‘why?’ Then I had one and it was very nice, so I’ve changed my mind on what can be con­sti­tuted as a bis­cuit. And I do like a Hobnob.

I related to Tyler in that I wish I could have done things like he did when I had the opportunity. There is something quite satisfying about being a little bit more reckless and even fighting. It’s quite cathartic to just sort of randomly start hitting someone. It was fun kind of, letting all your rage go on the set.

Maybe I just am brooding and wounded. I’m just realizing that. Nah, I’m not. You just take little steps. I’m always aware of how people are going to view things so you’ve kind of got to go halfway. If I did something playing a 400-pound woman people are probably going to judge it more harshly than other people who have been doing character parts for 20 years. Not in a calculated way but all of the projects I’m doing seem like little baby steps toward other things. The thing I’m doing now [Bel Ami] is completely different in some ways but, at the same time, it’s got a lot of intensity. It’s what I like in characters.