I believe in the saying, 'If you aim at nothing, you're going to hit nothing.' So if you don't set goals, then you have nowhere to go.

" Lautner later said he would not bare his chest for any role that did not call for it. He then appeared in small television parts on The Bernie Mac Show My Wife and Kids and Summerland. " He was named number one on Access Hollywood's "Top 5 Hollywood Abs" list.

Lautner is best known for playing Jacob Black in The Twilight Saga film series based on the novels of the same name by Stephenie Meyer. Also in the same year Lautner was named the highest-paid teenage actor in Hollywood. In 2010 he was ranked second on Glamour's "The 50 Sexiest Men of 2010" list and fourth on People's "Most Amazing Bodies" list.