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I Put A Flower In Someone's Locker When I Was 15 Years Old. This Girl, Called Maria. Maybe I Was 14. She Actually Thought It Was From Someone Else, And The Other Guy Claimed It As Well, Which Was Just Great.

-Robert Pattinson

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I Put A Flower

Robert Pattinson

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I Put A Flower In Someone's Locker When I Was 15 Years Old. This Girl, Called Maria. Maybe I Was 14. She Actually Thought It Was From Someone Else, And The Other Guy Claimed It As Well, Which Was Just Great.

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I'm So Surprised It's Worked Out That Way. I Was Just Thinking The Whole Time That I've Never Had The Personality To Fit Into That. I'm Not Really Afraid Of It, Because I Don't Even Know How To Play Up That Aspect.

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It Was Hilarious [last Scene With Edward Cullen] Considering We'd Spent The Entire Series Filming In The Most Miserable Conditions, And Then We End On The Beach In The Caribbean Filming For Two Days In The Sea. That Was Fun. We Literally Did The Last Shot As The Sun Was Coming Up In St. Thomas In The Virgin Islands. It Was A Nice Way To End It, Because They Were Considering Shooting It In The Sea In Vancouver, Which Would Not Have Worked At All.

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The Golden Globes Are Always Fun Because Everyone's Drinking.

It's Funny, People Were Asking Me How I'd Feel When It All Ends, On The First Movie, And I Don't Think I've Ever Felt More Completely Bewildered, Knowing That I Only Have A Month Of Twilight Stuff Left To Do.

I'm Just A Tool, I'm Just A Big, Hard Tool.

I Think The Most Stressful Thing In Movies Is When The Weather Is Really Random.

We Didn't Have Packed Lunches At My School. I Was A Lunch Monitor As Well - I Used To Take Everyone's Chips!

I Wanted To Play Piano In Restaurants In The South Of France. I Went There On Holiday Once And I Saw This Guy Playing In An Old Tuxedo. He Was All Disheveled, With A Whisky Glass On The Piano. I Thought That Was The Coolest Thing. So What's Happened To Me With 'twilight' Isn't Really What I'd Planned.

I Was Really Unfit Last Year, So I Worked Out For A Long Time, Then Spent Time By Myself In Oregon. For About Two Months The Only Person I Saw Was My Trainer. Every Day I Did A Lot Of Running And I Just Didn’t Want To Talk To Anyone For Two Months. So When I Started Talking Again, It Was Like You Would Communicate Wrongly, Like You Wouldn’t Really Remember How To Speak. That Was One Of The Key Things As Well As Just Reading The Book, Reading The Script A Million Times, Just Figuring Things Out.

I 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.

Nothing Can Be Good If You Do It For Money Or For Fame.

It’s Funny Now, Trying To Socialise With People. There’s This Cautiousness About People Which I Just Find Really Weird.

Twilight Fans Are Literally On The Verge Of Being Clinically Insane.

Only For Practical Reasons. To Find Out If I Said Something Stupid In An Interview. So I Can Limit The Damage.

I 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.

I Don't Know Much About Contemporary Music. I Do Have An Ipod But I Listen To A Lot Of Old Blues. I Listen To John Lee Hooker And Elmore James. I Have Been Listening To Them For Years. I Was Obsessed With Van Morrison For Years. I Went To See Him Recently Where He Performed Astral Weeks. I Just Spent The Entire Night Crying, But I Was Really Obsessed With Van Morrison.

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.

My Dad Said To Me The Other Day, I Really Am An Artistic Person. I Was Shocked As I Never Saw Him As A Creative. I Think Me And My Sisters Are Living Out That Side Of Him As My Sister Is Another Creative Person, She's A Songwriter.

Peter [facinelli] Would Be So Good At Doing That. I Want Him To Do The Beyoncé Biopic.

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.

You Can Put A Dog In A Scene And Everyone's Going To Be Better, I Guarantee It. And If They're Not Better, Just Shoot The Dog.

My Dream Job Is Being A Pianist

I Don't Think Anyone Can Understand What's Happening. Something Like This Is So Rare. It's A Mix Of Chance And Coincidence. You Wake Up One Day And You're Suddenly A Star.. Really Weird. All Of A Sudden Everyone Knows Who You Are While You Haven't Changed One Bit

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

You Have This Weird Thing Where You End Up Trying To Fight Against This Faceless Blob, Where The More You Hate It, The Bigger It Gets, Because It's All In Your Head.

People Who Are The Most Normal Are Probably The Most Crazy.

I Never Thought People Would Buy The Soundtrack [to Twilight]. So, It's A Little More Nerve-wracking Now. I Don't Know.

I Wasn't At All Focused On School, And I Didn't Achieve Much. But I've Got A Sense Of Urgency Now. I Feel I Can't Let Any More Time Waste Away.

It's Hard For Them Because They Want To Be Proud Of Me, But I Keep Reminding Them That It's All Luck. Luck Is What Got Me Here, Nothing Else.

With Eclipse, I Felt Like I Was Doing A Completely Different Movie And A Completely Different Character. So, Yeah, It Was Nice And Challenging.

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.

Up Until I Was 12 My Sisters Used To Dress Me Up As A Girl And Introduce Me As 'claudia'! Twelve Was A Real Turning Point For Me As I Moved To A Mixed School, And Then I Became Cool And Discovered Hair Gel.

When The Whole World Is Watching You, They Create Stories And Give You Labels That Have Nothing To Do With You. It's Almost Impossible For You Not To Explode!

I Have To Look Over My Shoulder All The Time, Be Really Vigilant Because At Any Moment, Someone Could Be Filming Me Or Recording What I'm Saying.

I Always Think Everything Is Going To Be My Last Job So Every Single Day Is A Gift. This Whole Life Is An Accident For Me.

People Would Be In Hysterics If They Saw That. It's Like, Wow, He's A Superhuman Moron.... So He Wears Lipstick, Has A Little Bouffant, And Does Little Circus Acts As Well. Oh, He's So Sexy.

I Think 26 Is The Turning Point. I’ve Got To Make Up For 10 Years Of Living Like A Degenerate. I’ve Suddenly Become Conscious Of Being Unhealthy. You’ve Spent Every Bit Of Free Time Since [the Age Of ] 15 In A Pub. And Suddenly You’re Like, ‘oh God, I Don’t Want To Be This Grey Ghost Sitting There With A Pot Belly. I’ve Got To Get It Together.

This Thing With Everyone Knowing You It’s 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 Don’t Really Know Myself That Well.

Alot Of People Think Our Lives Are All About Taking Pictures And Stuff Like That. But It Becomes A Real Bother When They're Taking Pictures Of You All The Time.

A 17-year-old Girl In Australia Hacked Into My E-mail While I Was On It, Then A 15-year-old Girl In England Did The Same Thing.

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

It's Not Necessarily That Satisfying Getting Monetary Success, But Sometimes It Keeps The Door Open To Make What You Want To Make.

I'll Probably Go To London And Hide.

No, Not Really. I Mean, At The End Of The Day, It's Just A Part. You Just Go Into It, And Like Your Life, You're Walking Along The Street, As A Really Bad Analogy, You Step On A Little Stone, And It Just Kind Of Flies Away And You Have No Idea Where It's Going. And Then You Are Just Trying Not To Drown Afterwards. And That's My Life. See, That Was Really Terrible.

The End Of The Day

I Don't Really Know [who My Favorite Vampire Is]. I Always Think, 'ethan Hawke In Interview With A Vampire,' And Someone Will Say, 'he's Not The Vampire. He's The Interviewer.'

I'm Not Particularly Good At Coping With It. I Just Cope. I Just Leave My Brain At The Door And Just Stand There. I Can Get The Screaming More Than I Get The Photo Things. That's The Worst, When You Have This Wall Of Photographers. I've Never Understood The Logic In How They Do It. Everybody Shouts At The Same Time, And You're Trying To Do A Logical Thing, Looking From The Left To The Right. And They Almost Always End Up Looking Disappointed With You Afterwards.

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.

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.

You're Trying To Play Someone [edward Cullen] Who's Seen By A Lot Of People As Being This Perfect Thing, But What Is That? That Doesn't Really Mean Anything. You're Trying To Play An Archetype On One Hand And Then A Character On The Other, So I Felt Insanely Frustrated Right Up Until The Last Shot, And Then It Ended.

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 Am A Big Fan Of Music And Clothing Style Of The 1960s. Whether In England Or The United States, I Like Everything From That Time.

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 Just Saw Twilight On Tv, For The First Time, A Few Days Ago, And, When My Song Came On, I Was Just Thinking That Is So Bazaar That I Actually Had A Song In The Movie.

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.

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.

All 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.'

I Got Expelled From My School When I Was 12; I Was Quite Bad!

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