Working with amazing people, you continue to learn and develop yourself, as an actor and as a person.

It's cool to play a vampire and be a part of this new, hot genre.

When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.

I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.

Well, food's always the way to anybody's heart, I think, guy or girl.

We've seen some insane signs: 'Is that a loaf of bread in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?' Funny stuff along those lines. Very original. One just said, 'I will do unspeakable things.' I thought that was very interesting - and mildly terrifying!

I play basketball probably four to five days a week when I'm back home.

I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.

Well, getting behind the camera is something I've always wanted to get involved with. Ever since I was doing movies like 'Zathura' I was very interested in all the different jobs on set and kind of soaking all the information up like a sponge.