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I Don't Really Understand It Even Now, It Does Have An Angle Which Is Attached To Something Quite Primal In Girls. I Guess People Want It To Define Them, Like 'i'm A Twilight Fan.' That's Crazy To Me. I Think People Really Just Like Being Part Of A Crowd. There's Something Just Tremendously Exciting About Hyping Yourself Up To That Level.

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Robert Pattinson

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I Don't Really Understand It Even Now, It Does Have An Angle Which Is Attached To Something Quite Primal In Girls. I Guess People Want It To Define Them, Like 'i'm A Twilight Fan.' That's Crazy To Me. I Think People Really Just Like Being Part Of A Crowd. There's Something Just Tremendously Exciting About Hyping Yourself Up To That Level.

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When 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.

I Don't Know What's Wrong With Me, My Brain Doesn't Work Anymore. I Haven't Any Memory. I Can't Write. All I Can Do Is Sign My Name. I Tried To Write The Other Day-it Looked Like I Was Writing In Braille.

I 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.

If You Find A Girl Who Reads, Keeps Her Close. When You Find Her Up At 2 Am Clutching A Book To Her Chest And Weeping, Make Her A Cup Of Tea (coffee) And Hold Her. You May Lose Her For A Couple Of Hours But She Will Always Come Back To You. She'll Talk As If The Characters In The Book Are Real Because, For A While, They Always Are. Date A Girl Who Reads Because You Deserve It. You Deserve A Girl Who Can Give You The Most Colorful Life Imaginable.

If You're Happy All Of The Time, It's Difficult To Acknowledge When You Actually Are Happy.

It's Insane. I've Had Girls Throwing Themselves At Me Since The Hype Started. Now The Film's Out I Can't Walk Down The Street Without Being Pounced On. All My Life I've Hated Crowds. Now I Only Have To Step Outdoors And I'm At The Centre Of One. It's Very Cool But It's Very Uncomfortable Too.

It's Strange, Somebody Asked For My Autograph The Other Day. Because I Finished School And I'm Not Really Doing Anything At The Moment, I Was Just Kind Of Aimlessly Wandering Around London And These Two Guys Who Were About 30 Came Up And Asked For My Autograph. I Was Really Quite Proud At The Time, And They Wanted To Take Photos And Stuff. And Then They Were Sort Of Wandering Around And I Was Kind Of Wandering Around And I Bumped Into Them About Three Times, And Every Single Time Their Respect For Me Kept Growing And Growing And Growing.

Umm Thanks For The Phone. I Think I Already Broke It.

Smaller Movies Are Great Because You Don't Have To Argue With So Many People All The Time. But Really I Like Arguing So There's A Balance Either Way.

This Is Quite Difficult 'cause I Have A Really Flat Head, And So It's Quite Difficult To Get A Correct Angle. And You Can't Go Up From Down Below As Well, 'cause I've Got, Like, Rock Solid Gelled Hair. And So, Like, It Was Odd. I Don't Know, Sometimes I Feel Like My Head Is Being, Like, Turned Inside Out. Like That Episode Of Ren & Stimpy When He's Inside His Own Belly Button. I Don't Know.

There's A Thing, In General, About Doing Any Kind Of Series, Especially When The Characters Remain The Same. It's Just That You Can Go Back And Try And Improve Whatever You Did In The Last Movie, Which Never Happens. That Tone Or Work Ethic Is Nice.

I Really Understood What Was Happening In Cannes. I Was In A Restaurant During A Break And When I Came Out 2 Hours Later, 500 People Were Waiting For Me At The Exit. It Was Total Chaos. They Literally Had To Carry Me To The Car.

I Don't Find Myself That Interesting As A Human Being, So I Don't Really Think That Much Of What I Say Or Do Warrants Being Recorded.

I Like Being A Part Of David Cronenberg’s World, I Feel Very At Home There

The Only Emotional Connection Of Relevance Is With My Dog. My Relationship With My Dog, It's Ridiculous.

I 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!

When You Really Love Some One And You Go To Bed With Them, You Always Want To Give More Than Just Sex.

I Was Quite Intimidated By Ralph Fiennes. I Didn't Really Talk To Him While I Was Doing Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire And The Only Thing I Did With Him Was When He Stepped On My Head. Then I Went To This Play And He Was There. And This Girl Said, “you've Worked With Ralph Fiennes Haven't You, Robert?” And I Was Like, “well, No...” And Ralph Said, “yes, I Stepped On Your Head.” And That Was The Extent Of Our Conversation.

I Haven't Really Decided To Be An Actor Yet! I Started Doing Plays When I Was About 15 Or 16. I Only Did It Because My Dad Saw A Bunch Of Pretty Girls In A Restaurant And He Asked Them Where They Came From And They Said Drama Group. He Said, 'son, That Is Where You Need To Go.

I'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.

What Is Forever? God, I Don't Know. Hope, I Guess. That's A Difficult Question.

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I Feel Like You Have To Earn Something With An Audience. If I Just Did It Now, I Think Producers On Any Superhero Movie, I Think They Wouldn't Trust Me To Do It The Way I'd Want To Do It, Because I'd Want To Do Something Basically Really Strange. I Think You Have To Earn That Freedom To Do Stuff Like That. So I Think, If I Keep Kind Of Chipping Away, Trying To Do Good Movies And Interesting, Strange Movies Then People Will Eventually Trust You To Do That On A Bigger Scale.

I Would Have Taught Her A Lesson She Wouldn't Forget!

It's Fun To Deal With The Terror And The Huge Highs And Lows Of Things. We're Still Getting Massive Surprises, Anytime There's Any Twilight-related Event Or Anything.

The Most Embarassing Is When Friends Ask You To Meet Up With Them And You Have To Tell Them "sorry I Can't Go To That Place" Because You're Fully Aware Photographers Will Be Waiting For You There. I Feel Like Such A Weasle When Things Like That Happen, Like The World Has To Revolve Around Me.

People Don't Find The Personal Lives Of People With Much, Much More Power Than Any Celebrity Would Have - Don't Find Their Personal Lives Interesting.

Someone Stole My Shoelaces Once From My Shoes. I Still Wear Them And Never Put Laces In Them - They're Like My Trademark Shoes Now!

I Had To Do Two Roles In Two Days, I'm In A Hairflux.

I Never Set Out To Achieve Anything, Certainly Not Fame Like This,i Still Have To Deal With How To Actually Make My Life Work.

I Really Like Nicki Minaj. I Think She's Great.

Cosmopolis Is The Movie Of My Life. I Didn't Consider Myself An Actor Before, Even If I Had 10 Years Of Acting Behind Me. I Always Felt Like A Fraud, And Inappropriate. I Doubt A Lot. David Cronenberg Gave Me Confidence In Myself. He Changed My Way Of Acting And Thinking In This Industry.

I'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.

I Have So Much Residue Crap In My Hair From Years And Years Of Not Washing It And Not Having Any Sense Of Personal Hygiene Whatsoever. Even Today, I Go Into These Things Where I'm Supposed To Be This Sexy Guy Or Whatever, And I'm Literally Asking, 'if I Get Plumes Of Dandruff On Me, Can You Just Brush It Off?'

There Are Too Many Possibilities, If You Can't Die. If You're Playing A Normal Human Being, There's Always That.

It's Strange Because I'm A Sex Symbol To 14-year-old Girls Which I Guess Is Not The Most Helpful Situation To Be In. But Yeah, I've Never Really Thought Of It. It's Just So Funny. I Mean, Just Last Year I Couldn't Even Get A Date And Then This Year, The World Turns And It's So Bizarre That Everybody Just Changes Their Mind At The Same Time.

Recently I Stood In The Desert, Far Out Side Of L. A., And Watched The Sun Set On A Circus Tent From 1930. Every Where Stood Animals: Elephants, Tigers That Should Be Loaded Into A Steam Train. 300 Extras In Costumes Raced Around, The Modern World Had Disappeared Totally. Although That Was Totally Fake, It Still Happened Directly Before My Eyes! That Was My Perfect Day. I Would Be Gladly Experience That Every Day. It Happens Continually To Me: It Calls Itself Work. That Is Wonderful And More Than Enough.

It's Been Amazing To Play The Same Character Through So Many Adventures. And It's So Strange Because My Life Has Changed So Much Over These Years, But 'twilight' And Edward Cullen Will Always Be A Part Of Me. It's Been My Whole Life. My Whole 20s. And I Wouldn't Have It Any Other Way.

I Was Doing Progressively Smaller Movies In England, After Harry Potter... To The Point Where I Was Doing Nine-day Shoots For, Like, 20p And A Packet Of Space Invaders. And Then This Happened. So I'm Not Just Another Actor Who's Around And Jobbing. When You Hire Me For A Job, You're Hiring.

I Have Been Called Taylor Lautner A Few Time Which I'm Quite Happy About. You Only Have To Look At Us To See How Funny That Is But It's Nice To Pretend I Might Be Hiding A Taylor Six-pack Under My Shirt.

Every Time I Would Say Put A Baby In Every Scene.

It'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.

The 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. None Of Us Were Really Known Then, As Well. It Felt Like A Big Deal, At The Time.

I 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.

I Hope There Is Such A Thing. I Guess It Would Be Quite Scary To Find A Soul Mate When You're Young Because You're Probably Going To Mess It Up.

It's A Little Bit Over The Top. I Feel The Same In My Head I Guess. I Was Quite A Paranoid Person Anyway, So It Doesn't Really Feed Well When People Are Looking At You. I'm Not Really In The Right Job. I Don't Like Having My Photo Taken. I Don't Like The Attention.

It Happened While I Was Filming “water For Elephants In Which My Partner Is Reese Witherspoon. We Had A Scene With Elephants But There Were So Many Paparazzi Around That It Was Scaring The Animals And It Was Impossible To Film. Out Of The Blue, Fans, That Were Waiting For Autographs, Had Enough And Circled Around The Paparazzi. Teens Made Big Guys Run Away. It Was Unreal! I Was Pleased.

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