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If I Were A Place, The Area Of South Bank, In London. Between The Hayward Gallery, National Theatre And All Other Activities, I'm Never Bored. I Would Also Say New York For The Breathtaking Skyline Formed By The Buildings And The Fast Pace Of The City, Whatever The Time Of Day.

-Robert Pattinson

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If I Were A Place, The Area Of South Bank, In London. Between The Hayward Gallery, National Theatre And All Other Activities, I'm Never Bored. I Would Also Say New York For The Breathtaking Skyline Formed By The Buildings And The Fast Pace Of The City, Whatever The Time Of Day.

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I Still Remember, I Think It Was With The Third Movie, When We Went To Munich And The Entire Olympic Stadium Was Filled With Fans, And Just To Walk In There And Do Nothing.

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

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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.

The Special Effects Team Designed Everything, Which Basically Allowed Me To Stand On A Green Box And Look And Stay Relatively Expressionless And All These Machines Did The Acting For Me. Just The Way I Like It (laughs)

I Will Keep That A Secret As It Was So Indecent I Doubt She Was In Her Normal State Of Mind When She Made It.

If You Are Using A Digital Camera Specifically For That Reason You Have In Mind From The Beginning, Then Yeah, It'll Work. But Like If You're Just Shooting A Normal Film And Just Kind Of Just Shooting Extra Stuff Because You Can Because You've Got The Memory Space, It's A Bit Pointless.

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Never Trust A Guy Who Plucks His Eyebrows.

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I Don't Really Know How Accepted I Am. Nothing Ever Matters To Me Apart From The People With Negative Opinions. That's Literally It. That Always Drives Me On To The Next Thing. It's Funny, You Just Focus On Them And Then The Next Movie. That's The Only Thing You're Thinking About When It Comes Out.

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I Went To One Of These Signing Conventions. It Was One Of The Most Interesting Experiences I've Had. It Was So Strange That People Would Pay For Autographs. You Keep Thinking You Should Do A Little Dance For Them As Well Or Something.

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.'

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

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.

My Biggest Problem In My Life Is I'm Cheap And I Didn't Hire A Publicist. In Every Awkward Interview, Normally Actors Get These Things Scripted.

I Don't Really Like Watching My Stuff. It Makes Me Feel Sick. You Imagine You Look A Certain Way In Your Head, And When It Looks Even The Slightest Bit Different From What You Imagine, You Go, 'rubbish!'

I'm Really Scary In Reality. Most Of The Time.

You 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.

You Really, Really Feel Like You Have No Control [participating In Franchise] . I Mean, It's A Huge Juggernaut, Especially When Something Becomes Part Of The Cultural Landscape In A Way As Well. It's Really Scary Because You Get Trapped And You Get Scared Of Changing, Which Is The Worst Thing That Can Happen If You Want To Be Any Kind Of Artist.

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.

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!

The Only Way To Establish Any Kind Of Mystique, Is To Completely Shut Up And Never Talk To Anyone. And I'm Contractually Obligated Not To Shut Up.

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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.

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

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I Get A Lot More Abuse In England. That's Just A General English Attitude. I Did The Same Thing To Famous People. It's Just Your Instinct.

Contact Lenses Make Me Miserable, As Soon As I Put Them In. That's What Creates The Pouting And Brooding Character.

I've Said, I Think Since The Second One [part Of Twilight Saga ], That It's Going To Take 10 Years To Really Settle In My Brain, And I'm Four Years Into It.

In A Lot Of Ways, I Was Kind Of Crossing Lines Of What I Thought I Was Comfortable Doing. I Had To Do All This Naked Stuff.

I Read Some Gossip Thing Saying, Because I Looked Really Uncomfortable In A Paparazzi Photo Or Something, They're Like, 'he Should Get Used To It. That's The Price To Pay If You're Getting $12m A Movie'. If I'm Getting Paid $12m A Movie I'd Walk Around Naked. That's All Nonsense. I Don't Know Who Makes That Stuff Up. Even The Price For The First One Was Nonsense.

I'm A Lucky Person. Thank God. And I'm Conflicted. Thank God.

It'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.

I Never Do Anything Normal Anyway. I Just Get Other People To Do It Now.

Honestly, I Didn't Think That I Would Be Recognized So Easily.

I'm Almost Completely Deaf Anyway. So I'm Worried. I'm Very Worried.

I'm Trying To Sign Up And Do Movies That I'll Be Proud Of It. That's Kind Of How I Think About It.

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!

The Other Night I Went Out To Have Dinner In A London Pub And The Barmaid Had This Whole Conversation Saying, 'you Look Just Like That Guy From Twilight'. Every Time She Came Up, She Said Something Like, 'you Literally Could Be His Brother'. But She Never Put Two And Two Together.

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

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

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I'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.

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?'

Peter Also Uses His Wig As A Cereal Bowl... He'll Some Times Have Some, Like, Top Ramen In It.

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.

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

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.

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.

When You Read The [twilight Series], It's Like Saying 'edward Cullen Is So Beautiful I Creamed Myself'. I Mean Every Line Is Like That. He's The Most Ridiculous Person Who's So Amazing At Everything. I Think A Lot Of Actors Tried To Play That Aspect. I Just Couldn't Do It. And The More I Read The Script, The More I Hated This Guy, So That's How I Played Him, As A Manic-depressive Who Hates Himself. Plus, He's A 108-year Old Virgin, So There's Clearly Some Issues There

Everyone Just Screams And Screams And Screams. I Have Accepted It As Real Now, But It Still Feels Surreal.

I Didn't Want To Get Stuck In Pretty, Public School Roles, Or I Knew I'd End Up As Some Sort Of Caricature.

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. I Think If You Put The Lives Of People Who Controlled Billions Of Dollars On The Front News Of Every Single Paper, The World Would Be A Better Place. It’s The Spin Culture. If You Took Away Publicists And Things And People Spoke For Themselves, Then They’d Have To Be Responsible For Their Words.

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.

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.

The Girly Movie I Secretly Love Is Pippy Longstockings.

My Ideal Of Manliness Is To Be Incapable Of Doing Anything

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

I Remember, With The Third [twilight] Movie, When We Went To Munich And The Entire Olympic Stadium Was Filled With Fans. We Walked In There And Did Nothing.

It'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.

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.

I'll Probably Go To London And Hide.

I Would. I'm Just Too, I'm Kind Of, A Pussy, I Guess. That's The Problem. But, No, I'd Love To. I Think Everybody Should Do Open Mics. I Think It's Very Healthy For Your Soul. So Yeah, I'd Love To Do It Again, But I Don't Know. It's Like I'm Cutting A Record If I Do Open Mic Now, So, I Don't Know.

I Like Being Meticulous And It's Quite Difficult As An Actor To Have That Much Control.

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

After The First One [twilight Saga Movie], As Soon As People Start Referring To Something As A Franchise. A Franchise Is A Burger King Or A Subway. It's Not A Movie. The People Who Start To Say It Are Generally The People Who Are Making Money Off Of It. That's How They Refer To It. They Love It When Something Has Become A Franchise. But, As An Actor, I Think It's Scary.

I Can't Say I Prefer Blondes, Brunettes, Or Redheads. I Like Emotion And Elegance. Even Expensive Clothes Do Not Guarantee A Good Look. You Must Be Yourself Above All!

If I Had Known That This Movie Would Bring So Much Craziness, I Don't Know If I Would Have Said 'yes' To The Twilight Saga. I Never Asked To Be A Poster-boy.

I Don't Even Know If Stephenie Meyer Could Tell You Why She Was So Fixated On This Very, Very Contained Story [the Twilight] With Obsessive Characters. It's Just An Anomaly. That's A Terrible Answer. I Don't Know.

I Also Think If You Get Sort Of Early Success There's Always This Part Of You Which Feels Like, "i Need To Address The Imbalance, I Need To Kind Of Earn That Success After The Fact". I Try To Find Roles That Are Hard And Also, I Still Find Now, Even After I've Done Loads Of Really Random Movies, Directors Are Really Surprised That I Want To Play The Parts That I Want To Play. They Just Assume That You Want To Only Do The Honorable Good Guy Lead Who Saves The Day Or Dies At The End .

Christoph Waltz Is Stunning, An Insanely Nice Guy. He Is Not Only A Ridiculously Good Actor, He’s Also Funny, Helpful & A Good Colleague. I Like His Work Ethic. I Mean, The Guy Has Won An Oscar And Despite That He Is Receptive, Open-minded & Not The Least Bit Snooty. Reese Witherspoon Is The Same. It May Be The Nicest Cast That I Have Worked With Yet.

When Someone Tells You The Fundamentals You Think That Everything's Going To Come Out And Be Amazing.

The Stuff I Find Attractive In Women I Always Regret Finding Attractive. I Always Like A Kind Of Madness In A Woman... I Like It When They Hate Me Right From The Beginning.

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

Looking Scary With A Baseball Outfit On And A Little Bouffant, You Know, It Just Does Not Work. Especially With Sculpted Eyebrows.

Up Until I Was 12 My Sisters Used To Dress Me Up As A Girl And Introduce Me As 'claudia'!

New York Seems Very Very Foreign To Me, Like More Foreign Than Almost Anywhere In America, And Almost Anywhere In The World, I Find It Like One Of The Most Overwhelming Places.

I Haven't Found One Place In The World Yet Where I Could Disappear.

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.

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.

I Never Ever Would Have Thought Initially It Would Have Been Someone Like Pierce Playing Charles. I Think He Has An Innate Likeability To Him, As Soon As You Meet Him He's Very, Very Charismatic. Charles, On The Page, Was Someone Who's Very Domineering And Quite A Negative Character, And Pierce Just By Being Pierce Can Change The Whole Dynamic Of It, Which Made For A Much For Interesting Relationship. He's A Really Nice Guy.

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