You probably know Kristen Stewart as fiesty, awkward and a notorious tomboy. But THIS is the reluctant Hollywood darling in her own words...
1. 'You can Google my name and one of the first things that comes up is images of me sitting on my front porch smoking a pipe with my ex-boyfriend and my dog. It was [taken] the day [Twilight] came out. I was no one. I was a kid. I had just turned 18.'
2. 'I want to go to college for literature. I want to be a writer. I mean, I love what I do, but it's not all I want to do - be a professional liar for the rest of my life.'
3. 'I would never karaoke either. Every time I've even tried to do that, I've regretted it two lines in, and I end up talking [the lyrics]. It's making me embarrassed talking about it.'
4. 'Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else. There are a lot of girls who can't wait to get married and plan their wedding a long time in advance. I'm not like that. I do want to start a family at some point, but I don't know when.'
5. 'I don't want to be a movie star like Angelina Jolie. Nothing about being a celebrity is desirable. I'm an actor. It's bizarre to me that everybody's so obsessive.'
6. 'You don't know who you will fall in love with. You just don't. You don't control it. Some people have certain things, like, 'That's what I'm going for' and I have a subjective version of that. I don't pressure myself… if you fall in love with someone, you want to own them – but really, why would you want that? You want them to be what you love. I'm much too young to even have an answer for that question.'
7. 'I was glad to leave school. I was missing a lot of classes and they were failing me. I couldn't relate to kids my own age. They are mean and don't give you any chance. Once you have done with school, you realize that it is just a smaller version of life, and really I have felt that I should have been an adult since I was aged about five.'
8. 'I'm obsessed with my cat. We have a really strong, really weird codependent, almost Bella/Edward relationship. I'm going to be a crazy cat lady one day, I'm sure.'
9. 'It took me a long time to realise that I was a girl as a teenager. At that point I never really believed it. I looked like a boy for a long time. Now, finally, I feel like a woman.'
10. 'I have an embarrassing incapability, seriously, of summoning fake energy. I'm not very good on TV, and it's not my main goal in life to get good at it.'
11. 'I do think, though, that there is a niche that people are trying to fill right now because of the female audience. Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl. It's like, ‘That is not a woman. That is not the strength of a woman. That is just a woman trying to imitate a man.'
12. 'Everybody says the first cut is the deepest. It’s so true. I don’t know if it’s because it’s the best love, but it’s the first that you remember.'
13. 'I love being an actor, but I'm the last person to want to have a birthday party. I don't try to force it or fabricate this personality… so i totally agree when people say I'm, like, the most awkward person.'
14. 'I hated school so much... look at a picture of me before I was 15. I am a boy. I wore my brother’s clothes, dude! Not like I cared that much, but I remember being made fun of, because I wasn’t wearing Juicy jeans. I didn’t even think about it. I wore my gym clothes. But it’s not like I didn’t care that they made fun of me. It really bothered me. I remember this girl in sixth grade looked at me in gym and was like, "Oh my God! That’s disgusting – you don’t shave your legs!"'
15. 'Dude, I have no idea what I'm doing and that's kind of how I love it. I had no idea Twilight was going to be huge. Certain movies I've done I thought were going to be amazing did nothing. So it's fun not having so much control. It's kind of fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants lifestyle – it's fun, but it's scary as fuck. If it's not scary, it's usually – you have to kind of step back and go, "You're probably making this decision because it's right on paper".But unless you get that irking fear than it's not right.'
16. 'Really, I'm incredibly disjointed and not candid. Just in general, my thoughts tend to come out in little spurts that don't necessarily connect. If you hang around long enough, you can find the linear path. But it will take a second. That is why these interviews never go well for me.'
17. 'It's okay, you know? It's okay to be you. It's okay to just not be okay. It's okay to not be okay.'
18. 'I've always had an aversion to looking sexy, but I've grown out of it.'
19. 'I think people are used to seeing actors be wide open and desperately giving of themselves, and while I do that on a movie set as much as I can, it's so unnatural for me to do it on television, in interviews, in anything like that. I also don't find that my process as an actor is really anyone else's business.'
