When you really love some one and you go to bed with them, you always want to give more than just sex.
Robert PattinsonI started doing a paper round when I was about 10. I started earning $10 a week and then I was obsessed with earning money until I was about 15.
Robert PattinsonIt's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of them... I grew up with a lot of people who a lot of other people regarded as heroes, and no one ever came to me for advice, no one ever came to me for protection, and so I don't ever really think I've been looked at as a hero.
Robert PattinsonYou can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.
Robert PattinsonI don't know how many more of these awards I can come up for because I think a little bit is coming out of my pants right now.
Robert PattinsonI don't even know if Stephenie [Meyer] could tell you why she was so fixated on [Twilight] very, very contained story about these very obsessive characters. It's just an anomaly.
Robert PattinsonI'm always really worried about ruining their lives. Especially with people that aren't famous. It's such a massive change. I'm kind of a paranoid wreck. I've eaten a lot of room service.
Robert PattinsonEveryone used to chuck snails at each other at school, and I used to try and save them. And not only did I get in trouble for it, I got suspended for doing it. For saving the snails I kept about four or five hundred of them at the back of the class -- in Snail Land. We were like six or seven or something, people didn't even realise what they were doing. I had a strange compassion for snails. And the teacher just chucked them all in the trash in the end.
Robert PattinsonWhen I was 17 until, I don't know, 20, I had this massive, baseless confidence. This very clear idea of myself and how I would achieve success, which involved making decisions. I saw myself picking up the phone and saying 'Absolutely not' or 'Definitely yes.' Having control. Except you have to figure out whether the way you think at 19 or 20 has any value. And eventually I understood, with all that control, which was probably illusory, I wasn't progressing. So now I'm relinquishing a bit. I'll be a tiny bit naked.
Robert PattinsonI've never really taken myself seriously as an actor, It is surprising the amount of people who think I'm going to be really dumb. I think they think anyone who has done teen movies is just an idiot. I don't know, maybe I am. Some of the best actors, if you talk to them, they're not the smartest people in the world.
Robert PattinsonI think someone follows me. They do the most random stuff. I get a photo taken through a burger drive-through window and it's like, 'What?'. They always seem like they're six feet away. I don't understand. I'm walking around and I don't see anybody.
Robert PattinsonThe whole first movie [Twilight] was pretty fun. I had never really done a movie like it, when there's such a big cast of people that are around about the same age. Everyone didn't really know what was going to happen with the movie, but there was a good energy. There was something which people were fighting for in a way. They wanted it to be something special. Also, none of us were really known then as well.
Robert PattinsonWhen someone tells you the fundamentals you think that everything's going to come out and be amazing.
Robert PattinsonAll of my favourite actors are American and I grew up watching American movies. It's weird, but I used to do a New Jersey accent in every audition in the States just because I liked to do it, really. It's completely bizarre. Everybody would ask: 'Where are you from?' And I would say, 'Oh, I'm from London.'
Robert Pattinson[A fan] said, 'What can I do to get your attention?' I was like 'Um, just take your clothes off.' She stood there and frantically started taking her clothes off and got dragged out of the room by security.
Robert PattinsonI learned that if a relationship is honest, it can last through anything despite all the challenges we have to face and everything that happens around us.
Robert PattinsonI don't want people to hate me. I basically do whatever I want. But one of the aspects of what I want is, I want people to like me!
Robert PattinsonI don't think that I would ever do serenade to be romantic. You have to have so much balls to do that.
Robert PattinsonI really wasn't very much of a rebel. I'm seen by people now as more of a rebel which is strange. I don't like doing what people tell me to do. I don't deliberately rebel against them.
Robert PattinsonWhen I was flying to Rome, we flew over London; I felt like bursting into tears. It's part of me, so I can't leave London behind for good.
Robert PattinsonThis is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow. People know my name and ambush me in public and try to figure out what hotel I'm staying at and ask me to bite them and want to touch my hair.
Robert PattinsonPeter [Facinelli] would be so good at doing that. I want him to do the Beyoncรฉ biopic.
Robert PattinsonThis thing with everyone knowing you itโs weird, because people have this one-sided relationship where they look at your picture and feel they know you more than someone they actually know. I donโt really know myself that well.
Robert PattinsonI don't listen to anyone else. That's why I don't have a publicist or something like that. I can't stand it if someone's trying to tell me to do something which might be a mistake sometimes.
Robert PattinsonI'm trying to make something every time that feels new and surprises people. Hopefully at least one person. But it's not like I turn it off. I don't make a movie and then go back to my normal life. When I'm finishing one movie the next day I'm thinking about the next one.
Robert PattinsonWhenever I have to do anything fan-related there's always a whole bunch of people. My brain kind of shuts down when there are loads of people screaming at me. I'm not thinking at all so I can't really remember what's happened immediately afterwards.
Robert PattinsonIf I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no, I think it's impossible [to maintain that], for one thing. I don't think anyone can do that, apart from Denzel Washington. It's a strange place that the film industry is at, where you can just play superhero after superhero.
Robert PattinsonI don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.
Robert PattinsonI was at a small private school in London. I wasn't very academic. My dad said to me, 'OK, you might as well leave, since you're not working very hard'. When I told I him wanted to stay on for my A-levels, he said I'd have to pay my own fees, then he'd pay me back if I got good grades.
Robert PattinsonNow listen, guuuyyysss! Come on guys. Let's all, come on, let's be simple about this.
Robert PattinsonStart drinking vodka instead of beer, and try to get a six-pack as early as possible and you'll be a much more successful actor.
Robert PattinsonIt's supposed to feel totally foreign [to play in a series], every single time. But, going back for another go at it is good, on the one hand, but it's also bad, on another hand, because your ideas dry up sometimes, and also you get lazy sometimes because you're around the same people.
Robert PattinsonI watch so many movies and I find a lot of them very predictable, and also, a little bit playing it safe.
Robert PattinsonIf you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.
Robert PattinsonIt's a strange place where the film industry is at. I guess you could just play superhero after superhero. That seems to be the only guaranteed big-money thing. I don't know.
Robert PattinsonI aspire to be Jack Nicholson. I love his every single mannerism. I used to try and be him in virtually everything I did, I don't know why. I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest when I was about 13, and I dressed like him. I tried to do his accent. I did everything like him. I think it kind of stuck with me.
Robert PattinsonI actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which is what everybody says you shouldn't do, because it makes you feel like you're not acting.
Robert PattinsonI don't know if I'm particularly funny, I mean one of my legs is shorter than the other one, it makes everything look very awkward, so I can just pretty much look like an idiot, but I don't know whether I can be like witty. It could be a problem.
Robert PattinsonI'm trying to sign up and do movies that I'll be proud of it. That's kind of how I think about it.
Robert PattinsonSomeone stole my shoelaces once from my shoes. I still wear them and never put laces in them - they're like my trademark shoes now!
Robert PattinsonI went out a couple of times with Pierce. He's totally recognizable, and he makes no effort to tone it down. Some people were glancing over at us in the restaurant, and he just went over and introduced himself. And it does work. It dissipates all the attention. Me? I just crawl under the table.
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