Taylor Lautner Net Worth

Taylor Lautner's Quotes

• [About the 'Twilight' phenomenon] It's really unlike anything else. I know that over the past couple of years, I've had the time of my life and I'm very thankful, but it is different. It's almost like you live two different worlds and you completely vanish and then you go back to your regular life.
• I hope that I would be considered romantic. I don't know...one of my favorite movies is The Notebook (2004) so I guess that would be considered romantic. But I think being romantic is more than the flowers and the gifts. It's about connecting with the person and being able to talk and share things with her.
• [About presenting at the Oscars for the first time] I was freaking! It's probably the most nervous I've ever been. Just standing up on that stage and looking down at the people that you've watched your entire life. It was crazy...I wouldn't let myself lock eyes with any one person because I would have just stopped talking. If I would have locked eyes with Leo (Leonardo DiCaprio) or George Clooney or someone I would not have been able to speak so I was trying to avoid that.
• [About his new found fame and avoiding the paparazzi] Yeah, you definitely use a lot of back-entrances and exits, but I think for the most part, we (meaning his fellow Twilight (2008) cast members, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart) just go along for the ride. We're the same people that we were before and we have people behind us that kind of help us think ahead and we're just thankful to have that help. When we walk through hotels, we always walk through the kitchen or through the garbage room or the laundry room. It's that not glamorous, trust me.
• [About hosting Saturday Night Live (1975) for the first time] They tell you beforehand that "the cast is great, you're not going to be nervous, your just going to have fun" and I was like "yeah, okay" and don't get me wrong I had a lot of fun, but I was nervous. When I got the offer for it, I was like "Listen guys it's such an honor, but I don't sing, I don't dance, and I don't do accents and that's pretty much what SNL is" so I was really nervous, but it was a lot of fun.

Interesting Facts about Taylor Lautner

1. Taylor is a keen martial artist who, from the age of seven, has won many karate tournaments on a local, national and international level.
2. He is a big sports fan and his favorite sport is football. He is big fan of the University of Texas Longhorns, the University of Michigan Wolverines and professional NFL athletes, Brett Favre, Tom Brady, and Jerry Rice.
3. Has a younger sister named Makena.
4. Has a Maltese named Roxy.
5. Received his driver's license in 2008.
6. Became close friends with Twilight (2008) co-star, Edi Gathegi, when they began exercising in the gym together after filming the movie.
7. Close friends with Twilight (2008) co-stars, Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.
8. Was ranked #1 in Access Hollywood's "Top Five Hollywood Abs" (2008).
9. Named one of People Magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People of 2009.
10. Taylor's ancestry is English, Swiss-German, German, Dutch, Scottish, and distant Irish, French, and Welsh. Taylor's patrilineal line can be traced back to his great-great-great-grandfather, Edward M. Lautner, an ethnic German, who was born, c. 1848, in Austria, to Wenzel Lautner and Helen Quiezer. Taylor has also stated that, during preparation for his role in the Twilight films, he discovered that he has "distant" Native American ancestry (specifically of the Ottawa and Potawatomi tribes) on his mother's side. However, all of Taylor's maternal great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents are listed as "White" on U.S. Censuses.
11. Likes the band Kings of Leon.
12. Named Hollywood's highest paid teen actor (2010).
13. His favorite actors include Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon.
14. He went to Jamestown Elementary School in Hudsonville, Michigan until he was eleven years old.
15. His father, Daniel, is an airline pilot and his mother, Deborah, works for a software development company.
16. Participated in the 2010 Celebrity Beach Bowl.
17. Some of his favorite films include Gladiator (2000), Braveheart (1995), and The Dark Knight (2008).
18. Became one of the youngest celebrity hosts in the history of Saturday Night Live (1975) when he hosted the show for the first time on December 12, 2009.
19. Was in a relationship with Taylor Swift [July 2009 - December 2009].
20. Was ranked #3 on Men's Health Magazine's Top 10 Best Summer Bodies (2010).