“I was like this chubby-looking … I looked kind of like an old, Irish alcoholic… I think they were getting desperate, so when I came [they said] “We’re tired of looking; Let’s take the next guy who walks in!” I think a lot of it was that. Yeah, how uncomfortable I felt trying to play this perfect guy, it kind of inspired my performance when I was in the room ’cause I had no idea how to play it. And I [was] this kind of broken, totally self-conscious person who hardly said anything. And I think they misinterpreted the whole thing, thinking I was this really intense, really passionate guy. And I just had no idea what I was doing.”

- when he auditioned for the part as Edward in the movie “Twilight”

“Up until I was 12 my sisters used to dress me up as a girl and introduce me as Claudia!”

“Twelve was a real turning point for me as I moved to a mixed school, and then I became cool and discovered hair gel.”

“The stuff I find attractive in women I always regret finding attractive. I always like a kind of madness in a woman… I like it when they hate me right from the beginning.”

“I hate any reference to my name. I wish people would just completely invent a new one.”

“I wear a hat a lot. I have so much residue crap in my hair from years and years and years of not washing it and not having any sense of personal hygiene whatsoever. … Even today, I go into these things where I’m supposed to be this sexy guy or whatever, and I’m literally asking [the studio rep], “If I get plumes of dandruff on me, can you just brush it off?”

“If you don’t wash it (the hair) for six weeks you won’t have to wash it ever again. Until it gets unbearable.”

- on how his hair gets to look like that and on not washing it! (Yay! What a turn off!)

“Music is the part of my life that makes me tick, if I didn’t have music in my day I’d go crazy, I’d go nuts!”

“The dream job would be really to sing and dance on Broadway. That’s what I did my whole life, acting, singing, dancing. Anything in that field I’d love to do.”

“I’m really quirky. I like to make jokes- they’re mostly bad ones!”

“I’m obsessed with dresses and boots, oh and ice chewing.”

“I feel like a huge part of learning comes from stepping outside of your comfort zone in order to get some good old fashioned culture shock. There is so much wisdom to be found in every corner of the world, and it is just waiting to be discovered.”

“I am completely addicted to reality television, or all television for that matter. I have watched every episode of Lost, Heroes, Greek, America’s Next Top Model, Sex and the City, Weeds, Project Runway, Gossip Girl… you name it.”

(found her audition video for American Idol and hot bikini photos at My Reality Television.)