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In Public, I Hardly Ever Show Feelings. That's What Happens When Everything You Do Is Put Under A Magnifying Glass. But If You've Spent Some Time Hiding Behind Your Public Mask, And You're Back In Your Own Environment, Then All That Suppressed Emotions Still Has To Be Set Loose. As A Result You Are Going To Behave Like A Nutcase. I Think Thats Why So Many People Who Are Famous Go Nuts.

-Robert Pattinson

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In Public, I Hardly

Robert Pattinson

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In Public, I Hardly Ever Show Feelings. That's What Happens When Everything You Do Is Put Under A Magnifying Glass. But If You've Spent Some Time Hiding Behind Your Public Mask, And You're Back In Your Own Environment, Then All That Suppressed Emotions Still Has To Be Set Loose. As A Result You Are Going To Behave Like A Nutcase. I Think Thats Why So Many People Who Are Famous Go Nuts.

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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.

I Don't Think There Is Any Analysis. I Don't Think Anyone Knows Why People Like [the Twilight]. I Don't Think Even The Fans Know Why They Connect With It In The Way They Do. It's A Visceral Thing.

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'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.

Sometimes I Think I Look Like I've Had Facial Reconstructive Surgery. Like After Burns.

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.

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

Difficult Questions

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.

This 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.

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

People Ask Me If I'm Afraid Of Getting Typecast, But You Can't Be Afraid Of That. It's Really Not Up To You. I'm Getting Other Parts That Aren't Vampires. I Don't Know If People Will Accept Me In Them, Or Whatever, But There's Really Nothing To Be Afraid Of.

Sometimes Just When I Say Hello The Right Way, I'm Like, 'whoa, I'm So Cool.'

I Want To Strangle Whoever Invented That R-patz Thing.

You're Trying To Play An Archetype On One Hand And A Character On The Other, So I Felt Insanely Frustrated, Right Up Until The Last Shot, And Then It Ended.

I Might Go To Some Tiny Little Town In Idaho With, Like, Three People Living There.

I Always Think That You Have To Have A Certain Understanding Of What An Audience Would Want To See From You As A Public Person As Well As A Character.

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.

I Thought I Knew It All. Again, I Knew Absolutely Nothing.

Absolutely Nothing

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.

Since The Day I Finished Shooting There's Been At Least One Person Come Up To Me Every Single Day And Then After The Trailer Came Out, At Least Four. It's Absolutely Bizarre To Me. This Was Before There Was Any Systematic Promotion Of The Movie. It's Just Completely Nuts.

I Always Get Carried Away When I'm Kissing. I Just Go Nuts! Walking Away After It Is The Strangest Moment For Me. It's Embarrassing - Not Knowing What To Say To Each Other.

I 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.

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

I'm Really Afraid Of Getting Hit By Cars, Like Terrified Of It. I`m Terrified Of Crossing Streets. I'm Also Very Accident-prone...i Think People Aim For Me.

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

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

Your Ideas Dry Up Sometimes, And You Get Lazy Sometimes 'cause You're Around The Same People. That Was The Good Thing About Having Different Directors. You Had To Stay On Your Toes.

Probably My English Teacher Because She Got Me Into Writing Instead Of Just Answering The Question. I Used To Hand In Homework With 20 Pages Of Nonsense And She'd Still Mark It. She Was A Really Amazing Teacher.

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.

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.

On One Occasion I Got This Really Bizarre Horoscope Thing From Someone. It Was A Full-on Zodiac Reading, Charting And Intersecting All This Stuff. It Was Over 20 Pages Long And Said We're Destined To Be Together. That Was Totally Bizarre. I Don't Really Believe In That Stuff Anyway, Although I Do Believe In Karma Because It's Already Bitten Me On The Ass So Many Times.

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.

I'm Just Scared Of Crowds. I Just Think People Require Things Of Me Whenever There's A Screaming Crowd, And I Always Think I Won't Be Able To Provide What They Want, So That's Why I Look Scared All The Time.

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.

My Ideal Of Manliness Is To Be Incapable Of Doing Anything

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

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.

Sometimes I Think, 'to Hell With Acting' And Then I Realize I Could Be Working At A Shoe Shop. Acting Is Much Cooler.

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.

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.

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)

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.

After The First One [twilight], People Started Referring To It As A Franchise, But 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. They Love It When Something Becomes A Franchise. But, As An Actor, I Think It's Scary.

I Actually Quite Like Working With Kids And I Like Working With Animals, Which Everybody Says You Shouldn't Do. It Makes You Feel Like You're Not Acting, As Soon As You Have Someone Who's Providing Stuff To React To.

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.

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 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.

As Soon As You Have Someone Who's Providing Stuff To React To, Especially Working With A Baby, It's Great.

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